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  • It is not ignoble to feel that the fuller life which a sad experience
    has brought us is worth our personal share of pain. The growth of higher feeling
    within us is like the growth of faculty, bringing with it a sense of added strength.
    We can no more wish to return to a narrower sympathy than painters or musicians
    can wish to return to their cruder manner, or philosophers to their less complete formulas.

    George Eliot (1884). “George Eliot's Works”