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The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is
found in the effect was already in the read more

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is
found in the effect was already in the cause.

by Henri Louis Bergson Found in: Past Quotes,
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The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

by Martin Luther King, Jr. Found in: Past Quotes,
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Enjoy the spring of love and youth,
To some good angel leave the rest,
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Enjoy the spring of love and youth,
To some good angel leave the rest,
For time will teach thee soon the truth,
"There are no birds in last year's nest."

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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.

by Thomas Percy 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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I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.

by Carl Sandburg Found in: Past Quotes,
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Gone--glimmering through the dream of things that were.

Gone--glimmering through the dream of things that were.

by George Gordon Noel Byron 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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The age of chivalry is gone.--That of sophisters, economists and
calculators has succeeded.

The age of chivalry is gone.--That of sophisters, economists and
calculators has succeeded.

by Edmund Burke Found in: Past Quotes,
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