'You can't rub it out

You can't rub it out

A moment after we have done a wrong thing, we may bitterly repent it. We may be willing to give all we have in the world to undo it, to make it as though it never had been. But in vain. A deed done takes its place in the universe as a fact , and never can be recalled.

"Don't write there, sir!" said a boy to a young man in the waiting-room of a railway station, as he saw him take off his ring and begin with a diamond to scratch some words on the window. "Don't write there, sir!"

"Why not?" asked the young man.

"Because you can't rub it out ." We should be sure before we speak a word or do an act, that we shall be willing to have it stand forever.

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