George Washington Quotes About Past

Quotes about: Past

• We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

  George Washington

  4th Of July, Past, Errors

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• To rectify past blunders is impossible, but we might profit by the experience of them.

  George Washington

  Past, Experience, Might

  George Washington, Stephen Lucas (1999). “The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot”, p.32, Rowman & Littlefield

• We ought not to look back, unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear bought experience. To enveigh against things that are past and irremediable, is unpleasing; but to steer clear of the shelves and rocks we have struck upon, is the part of wisdom, equally as incumbent on political as other men, who have their own little bark, or that of others, to navigate through the intricate paths of life, or the trackless ocean, to the haven of security and rest.

  George Washington

  Ocean, Past, Men

  George Washington, David Maydole Matteson (1781). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”, p.378

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