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Ille potens sui / laetusque deget, cui licet in diem / dixisse, Vixi: eras vel atra / nube polum pater occupato, / vel sole puro: non tamen irritum / quodcumque retro est, efficiet; neque / diffinget infectumque reddet, / quod fugiens semel hora vexit. / -- Hor. Carm. iii. 29.
Happy the man, and happy he alone, / He who can call to-day his own: / He who, secure within, can say, / To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived to-day. / Be storm, or calm, or rain, or shine, / The joys I have possessed in spite of fate are mine. / Not heaven itself upon the past has power, / But what has been has been, and I have had my hour. / -- Dryden.