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We cannot overstate our debt to the Past, but the moment has the supreme claim. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Quotation and Originality,” Letters and Social Aims, 1876

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Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is. – Alan Watts

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The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past. РAndr̩ Maurois

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Waste not fresh tears over old griefs. – Euripides, Alexander

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