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Begin Again V

Two truths often sit side by side in new beginnings

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Rowan Hale
Jun 26, 2026
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“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”

— George Eliot —

Middlemarch

“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”

— Thomas Carlyle —

Sartor Resartus (similar public‑domain sentiment)

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