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."

Don't brood on the past, but don't forget it either.

Don't brood on the past, but don't forget it either.

We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished- for state. When did history become a bad word?

We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished- for state. When did history become a bad word?

You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the read more

You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.

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

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

You have to know the past to understand the present.

You have to know the past to understand the present.

The best of prophets of the future is the past.

The best of prophets of the future is the past.

Those who do remember it will find new ways to screw it up.

Those who do remember it will find new ways to screw it up.

Look back, and smile on perils past.

Look back, and smile on perils past.