Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.

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Never let us do wrong, because our opponents did so. Let us, rather, by doing right, show them what they ought to have done, and establish a rule the dictates of reason and conscience, rather than of the angry passions.

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Fall if you will, but rise you must.

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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.

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Shut your eyes and see.

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Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.

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Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.

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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

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Ask no questions and you'll hear no lies.

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Time's ruins build eternity's mansions.

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