"It Came Upon a Midnight Clear” missing verse But with the woes of sin and strife The world has suffered long; Beneath the angel-strain have rolled Two thousand years of wrong; And man, at war with man, hears not The love-song, which they bring: O hush the noise, ye men of strife, And hear the angels sing! — Edmund Hamilton Sears, written in the context of the social strife that plagued the country during the approaching Civil War
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When we breathe, we do not stop inhaling because we have taken in all the oxygen we will ever need, but because we have all the oxygen we need for this breath. Then we exhale, release carbon dioxide, … — Wayne Muller