Everybody marks the nightingale above all other birds because she singeth when the other minstrels of the woods are silent and asleep; and thus doth faith praise God under the cloud. Temporal things shall come to you in such proportion as you would yourself desire them if you were able to know all things and to form a judgment according to infinite wisdom. I was as restless once as those ever-flying birds which hover over the waters of the Golden Horn at Constantinople. They are never seen to rest,
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