"Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it."

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The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a loss of wealth, a loss of friends, seems at the moment unpaid loss, and unpayable. But the sure years reveal the deep remedial force that underlies all facts.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson