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Show THE FOWElt OR RIGHT. As I myself look at it, there is no fault nor folly of my life and both have been many and great that does not rise up against me, and take away my joy, and shorten my power of possession of sight, or understanding. understand-ing. And every past effort of my life, every gleam of righteousness ot; good in it is with me now, to help ma in my grasp of this art and its vision. So far as I can rejoice in or interpret either, my power is owed to what of right there is in me. I dare to say it, that, because through all my life I have desired good and not evil; because I have been kind to many; have wished to be kind to all; have wilfully injured none, and because I have loved much, and not selfishly; therefore, the morning morn-ing light is yet visible to me on those hills, and you who read may trust my thought and word in such work as I have to do for you, and you will be glad afterward that you have trusted in them. Ruskin. |
