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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.

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Don't brood on the past, but don't forget it either.

Don't brood on the past, but don't forget it either.

by Thomas H. Raddal Found in: Past Quotes,
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The best of prophets of the future is the past.

The best of prophets of the future is the past.

by George Gordon Noel Byron Found in: Past Quotes,
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Study the past if you would divine the future.

Study the past if you would divine the future.

by Confucius Found in: Past Quotes,
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We remain
Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past.

We remain
Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past.

by James Russell Lowell Found in: Past Quotes,
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The good of other times let people state;
I think it lucky I was born so late.
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The good of other times let people state;
I think it lucky I was born so late.
[Lat., Prisca juvent alios; ego me nunc denique natum Gratulor.]

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O, to bring back the great Homeric time,
The simple manners and the deed sublime:
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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.

by Mortimer Collins Found in: Past Quotes,
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You have to know the past to understand the present.

You have to know the past to understand the present.

by Dr. Carl Sagan Found in: Past Quotes,
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Enjoy the spring of love and youth,
To some good angel leave the rest,
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Enjoy the spring of love and youth,
To some good angel leave the rest,
For time will teach thee soon the truth,
"There are no birds in last year's nest."

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The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

by Henri Bergson Found in: Past Quotes,
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