With him I have cast in my lot, to live and die, and be buried by his
side; and to him I go home contented, to look after his petty
interests, cares, sorrows--Petty, truly--seeing that they include the
whole primal mysteries of life--Food, raiment, and work to earn them
withal; love and marriage, birth and death, right doing and wrong
doing, 'Schicksal und eigene Schuld;' and all those commonplaces of
humanity which in the eyes of a minute philosopher are most divine,
because they are most commonplace--catholic as the sunshine and the
rain which come down from the Heavenly Father, alike upon the evil
and the good. As for doing fine things, my friend, with you, I have
learnt to believe that I am not set to do fine things, simply because
I am not able to do them; and as for seeing fine things, with you, I
have learnt to see the sight--as well as to try to do the duty--which
lies nearest me; and to comfort myself with the fancy that if I make
good use of my eyes and brain in this life, I shall see--if it be of
any use to me--all the fine things, or perhaps finer still, in the
life to come.
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