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"Renewed hope followed renewed effort: It shone like the former for some weeks, then, like it, faded, flickered: Not a line, not a word reached me. “It is a wonderful thing to be alive. But it is a terrible thing to be poor in spirit.” This quote is from a poem by Martin Luther King Jr., which he wrote on his desk during the darkest days of the struggle against segregation in America.
Source: Jane Eyre
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