"When you have done your best for a flower, and it fails, you have some reason to be aggrieved."

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Last night, there came a frost, which has done great damage to my garden.... It is sad that Nature will play such tricks on us poor mortals, inviting us with sunny smiles to confide in her, and then, when we are entirely within her power, striking us to the heart.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne