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Quote by Henri Bergson
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause. – Henri Bergson

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In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs. – Henri Bergson

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Attitude
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To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. – Henri Bergson

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Change
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Tis not to see the world
As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes,
And heart profoundly stirred;
And weep, and feel the fullness of the past,
The years that are not more. – Matthew Arnold

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Past, the

There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated. – Proverb

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Past, the

Many are always praising the by-gone time, for it is natural that the old should extol the days of their youth; the weak, the time of their strength; the sick, the season of their vigor; and the disappointed, the spring-tide of their hopes. – Caleb Bingham

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There is a way to look at the past. Dont hide from it. It will not catch you — if you dont repeat it. – Pearl Bailey

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Past, the

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I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate. – Vincent Van Gogh

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Every day a thread makes a skein in the year. – Dutch Proverb

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I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least — and it is commonly more than that — sauntering through the woods and over the hills and fields, absolutely free from all worldly engagements. – Henry David Thoreau

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Follow your passion, and success will follow you. – Terri Guillemets

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