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"To youth and natural cheerfulness like Emma’s, though under temporary gloom at night, the return of day will hardly fail to bring return of spirits. The young and cheerfulness of the morning are in happy analogy, and of powerful operation; and if the distress be not poignant enough to keep the eyes unclosed, they will be sure to open to sensations of softened pain and brighter hope." (p. 109)

"A sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by a proportionate depression. It soon flies over the preset failure, and begins to hope again." (p. 113)

- Austen J. 2003. Emma. Oxford: Oxford University Press.