Soothe the present as much as we may; look forward as hopef… - Arthur Helps

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Soothe the present as much as we may; look forward as hopefully as we can to the future, still the dreadful past must overshadow us.

Arthur Helps

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Sir Arthur Helps (10 July 1813 – 7 March 1875) was an English writer and dean of the Privy Council.

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