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The future works out great men's destinies: The present is enough for common souls, Who, never looking forward, are indeed Mere clay wherein the footprints of their age Are petrified forever.
The future works out great men's destinies: The present is enough for common souls, Who, never looking forward, are indeed Mere clay wherein the footprints of their age Are petrified forever.
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- Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922) (1922 AD)
Printed page 190 · quotation 27 · Lowell · Act for Truth.
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