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“Progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beasts: God is, they are; Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.”
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- Source:
- A Death in the Desert.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 5792df7004d54e48210db2ce610b88aa2e60dc94b28312572001ed00465b26bd
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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