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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 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.
The light of other days is faded,
And all their glories past.
The light of other days is faded,
And all their glories past.
O God! Put back Thy universe and give me yesterday.
O God! Put back Thy universe and give me yesterday.
O, to bring back the great Homeric time,
The simple manners and the deed sublime:
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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.
The best of prophets of the future is the past.
The best of prophets of the future is the past.
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?
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
You have to know the past to understand the present.
You have to know the past to understand the present.
