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Abraham Lincoln1 quote
It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away." — Abraham Lincoln · 1859Edward FitzGerald1 quote
The Sultan asked for a Signet motto, that should hold good for Adversity or Prosperity. Solomon gave him, "This also shall pass away." — Edward FitzGerald · 1852Ralph Waldo Emerson1 quote
Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence. — Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1850Rudyard Kipling1 quote
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same. — Rudyard Kipling · 1910