Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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So careless of the single life.

In Memoriam. lv. Stanza 2.

The great world's altar-stairs,

That slope through darkness up to God.

In Memoriam. lv. Stanza 4.

Who battled for the True, the Just.

In Memoriam. lvi. Stanza 5.

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And grasps the skirts of happy chance,

And breasts the blows of circumstance.