Today is not yesterday we ourselves change how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same Change, indeed is painful yet ever needful and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope. (Thomas Carlyle)

Today is not yesterday we ourselves change how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same Change, indeed is painful yet ever needful and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Thomas Carlyle

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