I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
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15 January, 1849. As quoted in Elizabeth Gaskell The life of Charlotte Brontė (1870), p. 285Charlotte Bronte
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The further backward you look, the further forward you can see.
Winston Churchill
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
Edmund Burke
Some men a forward motion love,
But I by backward steps would move.Henry Vaughan
Every age must look for its sanction to its poetry and philosophy, for in these the human mind, as it looks backward or forward, attains to an eternal state.
James Joyce
When people laughed at him because he walked backward beneath the portico, he said to them: "Aren't you ashamed, you who walk backward along the whole path of existence, and blame me for walking backward along the path of the promenade?"
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