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We do not remember days ... we remember moments.
Cesare Pavese
Ulysses
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Note: Though I have not included the full version of this epic poem, I selected the last few lines which, to me anyway, speak very emotionally and eloquently of the importance to persevere in life ... especially the last line ... to never stop believing in yourself and in your dreams. - Jace

Come, my friends,
’tis not too late to seek a newer world.
Push off, and sitting well in order
smite the sounding furrows;
for my purpose holds to sail beyond the sunset,
and the baths of all the western stars until I die.
It may be that the gulfs will wash us down:
it may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,
and see the great Achilles, whom we knew.
Tho’ much is taken, much abides; and tho’
we are not now that strength
which in old days moved earth and heaven;
that which we are, we are;
one equal temper of heroic hearts,
made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

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