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O Death! O Change! O Time!
Without you, O! the insufferable eyes
Of these poor Might-Have-Beens,
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O Death! O Change! O Time!
Without you, O! the insufferable eyes
Of these poor Might-Have-Beens,
These fatuous, ineffectual yesterdays.

by William Ernest Henley Found in: Past Quotes,
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Listen to the Water-Mill:
Through the live-long day
How the clicking of its wheel
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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."

by Sarah Doudney Found in: Past Quotes,
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Therefore Agathon rightly says: "Of this alone even God is
deprived, the power of making things that are past read more

Therefore Agathon rightly says: "Of this alone even God is
deprived, the power of making things that are past never to have
been."

by Aristotle Found in: Past Quotes,
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Oh! the good times when we were so unhappy.
[Fr., Oh le bon temps ou etions si malheureux.]

Oh! the good times when we were so unhappy.
[Fr., Oh le bon temps ou etions si malheureux.]

by Alexandre Dumas Pere Found in: Past Quotes,
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I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again,

I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again,

by Charlotte Barnard Found in: Past Quotes,
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To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.

To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.

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The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.

The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.

by Thomas Carlyle Found in: Past Quotes,
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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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What is past is prologue.

What is past is prologue.

by William Shakespeare Found in: Past Quotes,
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