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Heed not the past.

The wise and the foolish. · Wise and unwise conduct. · Choices. · Present values chosen. · The present preferred to the past. · view the constellation · filed as J311

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Filed under The present preferred to the past.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Count only the waves before you. Fox sees man trying to count the waves. Advises him to count only those immediately before him and to pay no attention to those which have already passed Do not ask: "Why were the former days better than the present ones?"
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Not what you were but what you are counts

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