Language is not subtle enough, tender enough, to express all that we f…

Robert Green Ingersoll
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Language is not subtle enough, tender enough, to express all that we feel; and when language fails, the highest and deepest longings are translated into music. Music is the sunshine - the climate - of the soul, and it floods the heart with a perfect June. ✨ Robert Green Ingersoll (1952). Life and Letters
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