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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have su...more

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Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowled...more

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It is just that I don’t know how I could live without the hope of her. It would be like learning to live with wooden legs.

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what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

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It seems as you'll never know the rights of it; but that doesn't hinder there being a rights, Master Marner, for all it's dark to you and me.''No,' sa...more