"Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats."

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There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.

— Henry Ward Beecher