Again I resume the long lesson: how small a thing can be pleasing, how…

Wendell Berry
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Again I resume the long lesson: how small a thing can be pleasing, how little in this hard world it takes to satisfy the mind and bring it to its rest. ✨ Wendell Berry (2013). This Day: New and Collected Sabbath Poems 1979 - 2012, p.201, Counterpoint
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Again I resume the long lesson: how small a thing can be pleasing, how little in this hard world it takes to satisfy the mind and bring it to its rest. ✨ Wendell Berry (2013). This Day: New and Collected Sabbath Poems 1979 - 2012, p.201, Counterpoint

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