Past Quotes
These are some of the best 'Past' quotations and sayings.
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Gone - glimmering through the dream of things that were.
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I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.
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I know the past, and thence I will essay to glean a warning for the future, so that man may profit by his errors, and derive experience from his folly.
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I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.
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It is delightful to transport one's self into the spirit of the past, to see how a wise man has thought before us, and to what a glorious height we have at last reached.
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It is to live twice, when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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No hand can make the clock strike for me the hours that are passed.
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Nor deem the irrevocable past as wholly wasted, wholly vain, if rising on its wrecks, at last to something nobler we attain.
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Our reverence for the past is just in proportion to our ignorance of it.
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So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.
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Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.
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Study the past if you would divine the future.
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The admiration bestowed on former times is the bias of all times; the golden age never was the present age.
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The past is for us, but the sole terms on which it can become ours are its subordination to the present.
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The past is the sepulchre of our dead emotions.
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The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
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The true past departs not; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless changes.
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Things without remedy, should be without regard; what is done, is done.
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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
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We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear bought experience.
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