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“Thou seest how few be the things, the which if a man has at his command his life flows gently on and is divine.”
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- Source:
- Meditations. ii. 5.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 573e2b8ec12538250ecc03080df7a40bd43736832d3bd69af23bd4414d6f533a
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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