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“Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.”
Joy and sorrow are treated as connected experiences: the capacity to feel one often grows from having known the other deeply.
Source note: The Prophet, “On Joy and Sorrow.”
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“Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it yet.”
A new day is treated as a practical reset: past mistakes remain real without having to occupy every future choice.
Source note: Anne of Green Gables, Anne’s hopeful reflection about tomorrow.
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“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.”
Sorrow is pictured as enlarging emotional capacity rather than merely diminishing a person, allowing later joy to be felt with greater depth.
Source note: The Prophet, “On Joy and Sorrow.”
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“Something had come to replace his hoard which gave a growing purpose to the earnings, drawing his hope and joy continually onward beyond the money.”
Voice: Narrator voice · Narrator
Money changes meaning when it serves a person rather than replacing relationship; caring for Eppie gives Silas’s work a forward-looking purpose that wealth alone had failed to provide.
Source note: Silas Marner; Eliot contrasts the former hoard with Eppie, whose needs and future redirect Silas’s earnings toward hope, relationship, and practical care.
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“What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.”
Fear is acknowledged directly rather than denied, then paired with a deliberate act of trust.
Source note: Psalm 56:3 in the King James Version.
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“Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.”
Voice: Reported speaker · Jesus
Mourning is not treated as failure or weakness; the promise of comfort gives grief dignity while leaving room for pain to be real.
Source note: Matthew 5:4 in the King James Version; one of the Beatitudes, addressing those who mourn.