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Quote from "There is a Difference" (1851)

"Look how wonderfully beautiful our Lord made this!" she cried. "I'll paint it, together with the apple branch. Everybody thinks it is so extremely beautiful, but this poor flower is lovely, too; it has received as much from our Lord in another way. They are very different, yet both are children in the kingdom of the beautiful!"

The sunbeam kissed the poor dandelion, and then kissed the blooming apple branch, whose petals seemed to blush a deeper red.

Source: Jean Hersholt's translation of "There is a Difference"

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Registered motifs in this quote:

1. God
2. Nature's assurance of a life after death

Keywords: Equality,' beauty

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