“Our earthly possessions will indeed perish in the final wreck of all things; but let the ship perish, let all we have sink in the deep, if we may come "safe to land." From these storms and billows — these dangerous seas — these tempestuous voyages — may we all be brought at last, safe to heaven.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 206.
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ii, line 88 (tr. J. H. Mozley)
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