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."

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

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

To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.

To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.

The past always looks better than it was; it's only pleasant because it isn't here.

The past always looks better than it was; it's only pleasant because it isn't here.

O God! Put back Thy universe and give me yesterday.

O God! Put back Thy universe and give me yesterday.

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live read more

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

The best of prophets of the future is the past.

The best of prophets of the future is the past.

The past is behind, just learn from it. The future is ahead, must prepare for it. The present is here; read more

The past is behind, just learn from it. The future is ahead, must prepare for it. The present is here; you gotta live it..