So each had a private little sun for her soul to bask in; some dream, some affection, some hobby, or at least some remote and distant hope....
("Tess of the D'Urbervilles")
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Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.
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So little cause for carolings Of such ecstatic sound Was written on terrestrial things Afar or nigh around, That I could think there trembled through His happy good-night air Some blessed Hope, whereof he knew And I was unaware.
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