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“But oars alone can ne'er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Human Frailty.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 12df3e78cb544b93322d9fab67d27a3916aa6c243c29368d129cf8a00b355f7b
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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