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Could we but know
The land that ends our dark, uncertain travel.

— Edmund Clarence Stedman

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The crystal-pointed tents from hill to hill.

Alice of Monmouth: an Idyl of the Great War (1864)

O, our feeble tests of greatness! Look for one so calm of soul
As to take the even chalice of his life and drink the whole.
Noble deeds are held in honor, but the wide world sorely needs
Hearts of patience to unravel this, — the worth of common deeds.

Flood-Tide (1860)

Give me to die unwitting of the day,
And stricken in Life's brave heat, with senses clear!

Alas, by what rude fate
Our lives, like ships at sea, an instant meet,
Then part forever on their courses fleet.

Worth, courage, honor, these indeed
Your sustenance and birthright are.

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A generation which ignores history has no past —and no future.

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From now on, everything in life will appear blurry to me. What’s the point of wiping my glasses when my vision has already left me?"

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You can never plan the future by the past.

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If we don’t care about our past we can’t have very much hope for our future.

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