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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.

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Praise they that will times past, I joy to see
My selfe now live: this age best pleaseth mee.

Praise they that will times past, I joy to see
My selfe now live: this age best pleaseth mee.

by Robert Herrick Found in: Past Quotes,
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The free world must now prove itself worthy of its own past.

The free world must now prove itself worthy of its own past.

by Dwight D. Eisenhower Found in: Past Quotes,
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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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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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Look back, and smile on perils past.

Look back, and smile on perils past.

by Walter Scott Found in: Past Quotes,
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The light of other days is faded,
And all their glories past.

The light of other days is faded,
And all their glories past.

by Alfred Bunn Found in: Past Quotes,
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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.

by William Penn Found in: Past Quotes,
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To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

by Charles Caleb Colton Found in: Past Quotes,
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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.

by Friedrich Nietzsche Found in: Past Quotes,
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