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“As still to the star of its worship, though clouded, The needle points faithfully o'er the dim sea, So dark when I roam in this wintry world shrouded, The hope of my spirit turns trembling to Thee.”
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- Source:
- The Heart's Prayer.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 4c6732d0d40b03737eddc14cf97648538e6da5e47b61fe83b64858a6d58d1b5d
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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