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“The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.” Charles Dickens

“The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”

—George Eliot, Middlemarch

“Trust no Future, howe’er pleasant!

Let the dead Past bury its dead!

Act,—act in the living Present!”

‒ H. W. Longfellow, ‘A Psalm Of Life’

We imagine that when we are thrown out of our usual ruts all is lost, but it is only then that what is new and good begins. While there is life there is happiness. There is much, much before us. – Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace