"Look back, and smile on perils past."

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"I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored."

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"There have to be more important things going on in the world than my past."

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"There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are."

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"Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past."

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"I don't like to dwell on the past."

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"'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come."

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"One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation."

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"Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest."

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"One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name."

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"There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine."

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"A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect."

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"To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light."

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