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“Little drops of water, little grains of sand, Make the mighty ocean and the pleasant land. So the little minutes, humble though they be, Make the mighty ages of eternity.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Little Things, 1845.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 598f2159f45ac79413bfb2f2bbd7f6080dc8002001a7c76f3d2ea88439f192fe
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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