“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”
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There is nothing stable in the world uproar's your only music.
You speak of Lord Byron and me there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.
There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.
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.
