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Hours in a Library, Volume 2

Note 28 — WORDSWORTH'S ETHICS

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So, too, in the Prelude:—

Then was the truth received into my heart, That, under heaviest sorrow earth can bring, If from the affliction somewhere do not grow Honour which could not else have been, a faith, An elevation, and a sanctity; If new strength be not given, nor old restored, The fault is ours, not Nature's.

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