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You have to know the past to understand the present.
You have to know the past to understand the present.
O God! Put back Thy universe and give me yesterday.
O God! Put back Thy universe and give me yesterday.
We remain
Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past.
We remain
Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past.
Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live read more
Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.
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.]
May the dreams of your past be the reality of your future
May the dreams of your past be the reality of your future
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 past is behind, just learn from it. The future is ahead, must prepare for it. The present is here; read more
The past is behind, just learn from it. The future is ahead, must prepare for it. The present is here; you gotta live it..
But how carve way i' the life that lies before,
If bent on groaning ever for the past?
But how carve way i' the life that lies before,
If bent on groaning ever for the past?