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Pain and sorrow may invest the conditions of the moment, but they are forces which are transmuting the inconsequential into the significant; the common and trivial into the exalted and the sublime.

From The Life Radiant by Whiting, Lilian

"They tell me, Vanens," said she, "that your philosophy succeeds so well that you are transmuting copper into silver."

From The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series by Sabatini, Rafael