Man's Extremity, is God's Opportunity

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“The ship is wrecked upon a rocky coast, / And all the sailors but these two are lost; / As one is sinking in the foaming waves, / A plank comes floating by - his life it saves; / The other’s, on a float, without an or, / But friendly breezes waft them both on shore."—Barber, 1857

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man, men, storm, God, proverb, extremity, kproverb, metaphor, mans extremity, opportunity

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Barber, John W. The Handbook of Illustrated Proverbs (New York, NY: George F. Tuttle, 1857)

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