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You have to know the past to understand the present.
You have to know the past to understand the present.
Those who do remember it will find new ways to screw it up.
Those who do remember it will find new ways to screw it up.
O God! Put back Thy universe and give me yesterday.
O God! Put back Thy universe and give me yesterday.
Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with read more
Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.
The next day is never so good as the day before.
The next day is never so good as the day before.
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.
The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.
The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.
Weep no more, lady, weep no more,
Thy sorrowe is in vaine,
For violets pluckt, the sweetest read more
Weep no more, lady, weep no more,
Thy sorrowe is in vaine,
For violets pluckt, the sweetest showers
Will ne'er make grow againe.
The light of other days is faded,
And all their glories past.
The light of other days is faded,
And all their glories past.
