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• People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. — Edmund Burke
• A holiday gives one a chance to look backward and forward; to reset oneself by an inner compass. — May Sarton
• And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope. — Robert Frost
• We look backward too much and we look forward too much; thus we miss the only eternity of which we can be… — M. William Phelps
• Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age. — Dorothy L. Sayers
• To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for… — Margaret Barber
• Memories and loneliness look backward, fear looks around, but faith always looks forward. — E. Lynn Harris
• Doing ill to those on whom we have to make our power felt; for pain is a far more sensitive means for… — Friedrich Nietzsche
• The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. . .… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• It is out of fashion in these days to look backward rather than forward. About the only American given to it is… — John Crowe Ransom
• ... but one loves, and when one is on the brink of death, one turns around to look backward, and one says… — Alfred de Musset
• Like the watermen who advance forward while they look backward. — Michel de Montaigne

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