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“And the most difficult of tasks to keep Heights which the soul is competent to gain.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Excursion. Book iv.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 17bd63f0762ddf8472b1dd2f1eca4954bc89db8798ed86288e2dfb9febde365b
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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