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“Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side; Some great cause, God's new Messiah offering each the bloom or blight, Parts the goats upon the left hand, and the sheep upon the right; And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.”
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- Source:
- The Present Crisis.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- bcf5295c4ddb85d650f35fa9393ef1bc66c7ec4e146825f11c76b8977287970c
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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