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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?
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
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.
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 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.
To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.
To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.
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?
Study the past if you would divine the future.
Study the past if you would divine the future.
Gone--glimmering through the dream of things that were.
Gone--glimmering through the dream of things that were.
