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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Children of the Night by Edwin Arlington Robinson: And that every man, and every woman,
And every child was a different being,
Wrought with a different heat, and fired
With passions born of a single spirit;
That the pleasure I felt was not their pleasure,
Nor my sorrow -- a kind of nameless pity
For something, I knew not what -- their sorrow.
And thus was I taught my first hard lesson, --
The lesson we suffer the most in learning:
That a happy man is a man forgetful
Of all the torturing ills around him.
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