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“Lydgate turned, remembering where he was, and saw Dorothea's face looking up at him with a sweet trustful gravity. The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character.”
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“So, now you know about Eva. The affair hollowed me out, but what, pray resounds in hollows? Music, Sixsmith, let there be Music and behold.”
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“For as you well know: while a single disappointment may elicit tears, a repeated disappointment will evoke a smile.”
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“Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.”
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“That is a rare and blessed lot which some greatest men have not attained, to know ourselves guiltless before a condemning crowd—to be sure that what we are denounced for is solely the good in us. The pitiable lot is that of the man who could not call himself a martyr even though he were to persuade himself that the men who stoned him were but ugly passions incarnate—who knows that he is stoned, not for professing the Right, but for not being the man he professed to be.”
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