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“What you need to know about the past is that no matter what has happened, it has all worked together to bring you to this very moment. And this is the moment you can choose to make everything new. Right now.”
Charles R. Swindoll Quotes |
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“Ancient lovers believed a kiss would literally unite their souls, because the spirit was said to be carried in one's breath.”
Eve Glicksman Quotes |
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“Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.”
Wayne Dyer Quotes |
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“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”
Leslie Poles Hartley Quotes |
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“May the dreams of your past be the reality of your future”
Oscar Wilde Quotes |
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“Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.”
Paul Boese Quotes |
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“You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.”
Jan Glidewell Quotes |
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“You have to know the past to understand the present.”
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“Therefore Agathon rightly says: "Of this alone even God is
deprived, the power of making things that are past never to have
been."”
Aristotle Quotes Source: Ethics (bk. VI, ch. II), (R.W. Browne's translation)
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“The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is
found in the effect was already in the cause.”
Henri Louis Bergson Quotes Source: Creative Evolution (ch. I)
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“No traces left of all the busy scene,
But that remembrances says: The things have been.”
Samuel Boyse Quotes Source: The Deity
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“But how carve way i' the life that lies before,
If bent on groaning ever for the past?”
Robert Browning Quotes Source: Balaustion's Adventure
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“Thou unrelenting past.”
William Cullen Bryant Quotes Source: To the Past
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“The light of other days is faded,
And all their glories past.”
Alfred Bunn Quotes Source: The Maid of Artois
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“The age of chivalry is gone.--That of sophisters, economists and
calculators has succeeded.”
Edmund Burke Quotes Source: Reflections on the Revolution in France
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“John Anderson, my jo, John,
When we were first acquent,
Your locks were like the raven,
Your bonny brow was brent.”
Robert Burns Quotes Source: John Anderson
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“Gone--glimmering through the dream of things that were.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: Childe Harold (canto II, st. 2)
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“The best of prophets of the future is the past.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: Letter
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“The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.”
Thomas Carlyle Quotes Source: Essays--Characteristics
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“O, to bring back the great Homeric time,
The simple manners and the deed sublime:
When the wise Wanderer, often foiled by Fate,
Through the long furrow drave the ploughshare straight.”
Mortimer Collins Quotes Source: Letter to the Rt. Hon. B. Disraeli, M.P., published anonymously 1869
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“Listen to the Water-Mill:
Through the live-long day
How the clicking of its wheel
Wears the hours away!
Languidly the Autumn wind
Stirs the forest leaves,
From the field the reapers sing
Binding up their sheaves:
And a proverb haunts my mind
As a spell is cast,
"The mill cannot grind
With the water that is past."”
Sarah Doudney Quotes Source: Lesson of the Water-Mill
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“Not heaven itself upon the past has power;
But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.”
John Dryden Quotes Source: Imitation of Horace (bk. III, ode XXIX, l. 71)
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“The days of rejoicing are gone forever.
[Fr., Ils sont passes ces jours de fete.]”
Jacques Du Lorens Quotes Source: Le Tableau Parlant
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“Oh! the good times when we were so unhappy.
[Fr., Oh le bon temps ou etions si malheureux.]”
Alexandre Dumas pere Quotes Source: The Conspirators (II, 318), (also titled Le Chevalier d'Harmental)
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“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”
Leslie Poles Hartley Quotes Source: The Go-Between (epigraph)
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