Finale: The Famous Closing Lines

From Middlemarch by George Eliot
The Finale, sometimes considered the most famous ending in English fiction, defends Dorothea's diffusive influence and the unsung lives of ordinary people.
Finale
Her full nature, like that river of which Cyrus broke the strength, spent itself in channels which had no great name on the earth. But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.
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