Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act, - act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead. by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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"Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act, - act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead." - Copy to Clipboard

-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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