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."
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The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is
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The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is
found in the effect was already in the cause.
Gone--glimmering through the dream of things that were.
Gone--glimmering through the dream of things that were.
The best of prophets of the future is the past.
The best of prophets of the future is the past.
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.
I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.
I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.
The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.
