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“Trust no future, howe'er pleasant! Let the dead Past bury its dead! Act, act in the living present! Heart within, and God o'erhead!”
Provenance
- Source:
- A Psalm of Life.
- Type:
- song
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- ee89107e0bb788832f2d1a2d492a15109d3e32fec0be6ff57bcf7fd55656c8c3
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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