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When by night the frogs are croaking, kindle buy a torch's fire; Ha! how soon they all are silent! Thus Truth silence the liar. - see Longfellow's translation "Poetic Aphorisms, Truth" [Truth] Through the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all. - Retribution, from the "Sinngedichte" [Retribution] Man-like is it to fall into sin, Fiend-like is it to dwell therein, Christ-like is it for sin to grieve, God-like is it all sin to leave. - Sinngedichte--Sin [Sin]
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