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ORIGIN OF PEARLS
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beautiful.
As written by a forgotten poet : "Forasmuch as the pearl is a product
of life, which from an inward trouble and from a fault produces purity
and perfection, it is preferred; for in nothing does God so much
delight as in tenderness and lustre born of trouble and repentance." As
the great Persian poet Hafiz says :
Learn from yon orient shell to love thy foe,
And store with pearls the wound that brings thee woe.
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