No; for instead of delivering myself up to the full enjoyment of the as others do, I am always troubling my head about how I could produce the same effect upon canvas; and as that can never be done, it is mere vanity and vexation of spirit.
("The Tenant of Wildfell Hall")
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Mistaken oft, and oft astray,
It strives to find the narrow way,
But gropes and toils alone:
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To none but God is known.
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So much - I dare not promise, now,
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