The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.

The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.

Study the past if you would divine the future.

Study the past if you would divine the future.

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.

The past is past and only a better Future can change that...

The past is past and only a better Future can change that...

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

The next day is never so good as the day before.

The next day is never so good as the day before.

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."

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.

I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again,

I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again,