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“What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Resignation.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 16c326b988ec0406c6f12d9b3eda52dd45fec8ed930730d6671edd5b17d18be6
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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