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LIVES OF GREAT MEN ALL REMIND US
WE CAN MAKE OUR LIVES SUBLIME
AND DEPARTING LEAVE BEHIND US
FOOT PRINTS ON THE SANDS OF TIME.
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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 OVER HEAD.
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THE HEIGHTS BY GREAT MEN REACHED AND KEPT
WERE NOT ATTAINED BY SUDDEN FLIGHT,
BUT, THEY, WHILE THEIR COMPANIONS SLEPT,
WERE TOILING UPWARD IN THE NIGHT.
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DON'T DEEM THE IRREVOCABLE PAST,
AS WHOLLY WASTED AND WHOLLY VAIN,
IF, RISING ON ITS WRECKS, AT LAST,
TO SOMETHING NOBLER WE ATTAIN.
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LET US, THEN, BE UP AND DOING,
WITH A HEART FOR ANY FATE,
STILL ACHIEVING, STILL PURSUING
LEARN TO LABOUR AND TO WAIT.
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