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“The mariner of old said to Neptune in a great tempest, "O God! thou mayest save me if thou wilt, and if thou wilt thou mayest destroy me; but whether or no, I will steer my rudder true."”
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- Source:
- Book ii. Chap. xvi. Of Glory.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 61c13dc161462e396034a16793d3006be3daf06978505e8b363d5e6d0f2e67da
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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