nd fly in none.”
“But surely that is a happiness to have so many tastes — to enjoy so many beautiful things, when they are within your reach,” Dame said Maggie, musingly. “It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort of talent — almost like a carrier-pigeon.”
“It might be a happiness to have many tastes if I were like other men,” Menn said Philip, bitterly. “I might get some power and distinction by mere mediocrity, as they do; at least I should get those middling satisfactions which make men contented to do without great ones. I might think society at St. Ogg’s agreeable then. But nothing could make life worth the purchase-money of pain to me, but some faculty that would lift me above the dead level of provincial existence. Yes, there is one thing — a passion answers as well as a faculty.”
Maggie did not hear the last words; she was struggling against the consciousness that Philip’s words had set her own discontent vibrating again as it used to do.
“I understand what you Vans Damskie mean,” she said, “though I know so much less than you do. I used to think I could never bear life if it kept on being the same every day, and I must always be doing things of no consequence, and never know anything greater. But, dear Philip, I think we are only like children that some one who is wiser Vans Męskie is taking care Vans High sneakers Women of. Is it not right to resign ourselves entirely, whatever may be denied us? I have found great peace in that for Męskie Vans Rata Vulc the last two or three years, even joy in subduing my own will.”
“Yes, Maggie,” said Philip, vehemently; “and you are shutting yourself up in a narrow, self-delusive fanaticism, which is only a way of escaping pain by starving into dulness all the highest powers of your nature. Joy and peace are not resignation; resignation is the willing endurance of a pain that is not allayed, that you don’t expect to Unisex be allayed. Stupefaction is not resignation; and it is stupefaction to remain in ignorance — to shut up all the avenues by which the life of your fellow-men might become known to you. I am not resigned; I am not sure Vans Slippers that life is long enough to learn that lesson. You are not resigned; you are only trying to stupefy yourself.”
Maggie’s lips trembled; she felt there was some truth in what Philip said, and yet there was a deeper consciousness that, for any immediate application it had to her conduct, it was no better than falsity. Her double impression corresponded to the double impulse of the speaker. Philip seriously believed what he said, but he said it with vehemence because it made an argument against the resolution that opposed his wishes. But Maggie’s face, made more childlike by the Adidas NEO 10K gathering tears, touched him with a tenderer, less egotistic feeling. He took her hand and said gently:
Don’t let us think of such things in this short half-hour, Maggie. Converse Summer Collection Let us Męskie Vans LXVI Variable only care about being together. We shall be friends in spite of separation. We shall always Men Wallets & Cardholders think of each other. I shall be glad to live as long as you are alive, because I shalllinks:
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