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Quote by Maurice Maeterlinck
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At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past. – Maurice Maeterlinck

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An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it. – Maurice Maeterlinck

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God has no power over the past except to cover it with oblivion. – Pliny the Elder

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The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it. – Wendell Berry

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The one charm of the past is that it is the past. – Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird. – Paul Eldridge

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