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“I slept, and dreamed that life was Beauty; I woke, and found that life was Duty. Was thy dream then a shadowy lie? Toil on, poor heart, unceasingly; And thou shalt find thy dream to be A truth and noonday light to thee.”
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- Source:
- Life a Duty.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- dc03ead5994477d410b2c043e1d2f7b465c543ef02df2e05fd3571d1a0b1f158
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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