“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”
There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.
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