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“A sacred burden is this life ye bear: Look on it, lift it, bear it solemnly, Stand up and walk beneath it steadfastly. Fail not for sorrow, falter not for sin, But onward, upward, till the goal ye win.”
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- Speech
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 906447c67d76c420eb742bee03a3be66bfde3ecf9f739bea96ddb02f4dd35c7a
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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