"The learned and the studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom. Their violence of direction in some degree disqualifies them to think truly."

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The present only is a man's possession; the past is gone out of his hand wholly, irrevocably. He may suffer from it, learn from it,--in degree, perhaps, expiate it; but to brood over it is utter madness.

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik