Too Familiar To Surprise

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known. It's a sentence from A Tale of Two Cities written by Charles Dickens, which the first time I read is in my Senior English Book and was moved much, wondering what a deep love that could make a man overcome the fear of death and the jealousy of love to go for death instead of his rival in love. Everytime when I think of this, I was always touched though I don't consider myself as a man of sensibility and at the same time I dislike the girl, doubting her whether deserve this love or not.
It makes me feel strange that why such a simple English sentence could touch me so deep while I feel nothing of the same Chinese sentence. Maybe the reason is that the Chinese is too familiar to us and we've seen to many magnificent Chinese sentence.So there's no surprise when we read a same Chinese sentence compared to an English one.