“What lies behind us and what lies before us are but tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
Henry S. Haskins (1875–1957)
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 131
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.”
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