We shall be judged, not by what we might have been, but what we have been.
-- Reverend William Sewell
-- Reverend William Sewell
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- Our deeds follow us,
and what we have been makes us what we are. John... - Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of
what we have been,
but what we yearn to be. Jose Ortega y... - We have finished the job,
what shall we do with the tools... - We're judged by what we finish,
not what we start... - Don't waste tears on what
might have... - Verily, when the day of judgment comes,
we shall not be asked what we have read,
but what we have done. -- Thomas A.... - Thy leaf has perish'd in the green,
And while we breathe beneath the sun,
The world, which credits what is done, Is cold to all... - Saying this,
we say what's been handed down... - A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday,
does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying...
