
“Es el vicio de mirar atrás. Puedes pasarte la vida mirando hacia atrás, pero no sirve de nada”
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Looking back to those times we cannot, without much reading, clearly gauge the sentiment of the Colonies.
The Philosophy of Paine (1925)
Contexto: Looking back to those times we cannot, without much reading, clearly gauge the sentiment of the Colonies. Perhaps the larger number of responsible men still hoped for peace with England. They did not even venture to express the matter that way. Few men, indeed, had thought in terms of war.
Then Paine wrote 'Common Sense,' an anonymous tract which immediately stirred the fires of liberty. It flashed from hand to hand throughout the Colonies. One copy reached the New York Assembly, in session at Albany, and a night meeting was voted to answer this unknown writer with his clarion call to liberty. The Assembly met, but could find no suitable answer. Tom Paine had inscribed a document which never has been answered adversely, and never can be, so long as man esteems his priceless possession.
In 'Common Sense' Paine flared forth with a document so powerful that the Revolution became inevitable. Washington recognized the difference, and in his calm way said that matters never could be the same again.. It must be remembered that 'Common Sense' preceded the declaration and affirmed the very principles that went into the national doctrine of liberty. But that affirmation was made with more vigor, more of the fire of the patriot and was exactly suited to the hour. It is probable that we should have had the Revolution without Tom Paine. Certainly it could not be forestalled, once he had spoken.
“Es el vicio de mirar atrás. Puedes pasarte la vida mirando hacia atrás, pero no sirve de nada”
“Evito mirar hacia adelante o hacia atrás, y tratar de seguir mirando hacia arriba.”
15 de enero de 1849. Como se cita en Elizabeth Gaskell The life of Charlotte Brontë (1870), p. 285
“El buen consejo, siempre lo he odiado. Pero mirando hacia atrás, me hizo mejor.”
“Una mirada hacia atrás vale más que una hacia adelante.”
Fuente: Sarmiento, J. M. Mil y una frases célebres. Planet House Editorials, 2016.