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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.
 No traces left of all the busy scene,
 But that remembrances says: The things have been.  
 No traces left of all the busy scene,
 But that remembrances says: The things have been. 
The next day is never so good as the day before.
The next day is never so good as the day before.
The past is past and only a better Future can change that...
The past is past and only a better Future can change that...
 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." 
 Oh! the good times when we were so unhappy.
 [Fr., Oh le bon temps ou etions si malheureux.]  
 Oh! the good times when we were so unhappy.
 [Fr., Oh le bon temps ou etions si malheureux.] 
Nostalgia is a seductive liar.
Nostalgia is a seductive liar.
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
 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.