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But blind to former as to future fate what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
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Health consists with temperance alone.
Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods if angels fell, aspiring to be angels men rebel.
Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk at least before they dance.
Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
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Past thinking and methods did not prevent world wars. Future thinking must prevent wars.
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.
The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.
