Crossroads Quote by Maurice Maeterlinck

“At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.”

Maurice Maeterlinck

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What man is there that does not laboriously, though all unconsciously, himself fashion the sorrow that is to be the pivot of his life.

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“Without struggle, success has no value.”

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