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The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope. ✨ Thomas Carlyle, Oliver Cromwell, Henry Duff Traill (2010). The Works of Thomas Carlyle, p.51, Cambridge University Press
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The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope. ✨ Thomas Carlyle, Oliver Cromwell, Henry Duff Traill (2010). The Works of Thomas Carlyle, p.51, Cambridge University Press

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