How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Book.Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #10
"I never expected happiness: and in knowing you, in loving you, I have had, and still have, what reconciles me to life. [...] The new life I have found in caring for your joy and sorrow more than for what is directly my own, has transformed the spirit of rebellious murmuring into that willing endurance which is the birth of strong sympathy." (7.3.13)
Philip’s letter to Maggie intriguingly borrows from Maggie’s philosophy of self-denial that Philip protested against. Philip, however, takes his love of another and turns it into a positive force that enriches his own life rather than turning it into a life of painful endurance.