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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.
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."
Nostalgia is a seductive liar.
Nostalgia is a seductive liar.
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.]
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
Those who misremember the past are pleased to repreat it as "proof.".
Those who misremember the past are pleased to repreat it as "proof.".
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?
Not heaven itself upon the past has power;
But what has been, has been, and I have had my read more
Not heaven itself upon the past has power;
But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
