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Look Not Mournfully Into The Past. It Comes Not Back Again.
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Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely
improve the Present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future,
without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807-1882 Hyperion [1839], bk. IV, ch. 8
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Trust no future, howe'er pleasant! Let the dead Past bury its dead!
Act, act in the living present! Heart within, and God o'erhead!...
Look, then, into thine heart, and write! -- Henry W.
Longfellow (1807-1882) -- Voices of the Night, Prelude...
This is the place. Stand still, my steed,-- Let me review the scene, And summon from the shadowy past The forms that once have been.
-- Henry W. Longfellow (1807-1882) -- A Gleam of Sunshine...
Great is the art of beginning, but greater the art of ending... -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Nature is a revelation of God. Art is a revelation of man. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Something the heart must have to cherish, Must love and joy and sorrow lea
Something with passion clasp, or perish And in itself to ashes burn....
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.
-- Buddha (B.C. 568-488)...