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Don't brood on the past, but don't forget it either.
Don't brood on the past, but don't forget it either.
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.
Study the past if you would divine the future.
Study the past if you would divine the future.
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 next day is never so good as the day before.
The next day is never so good as the day before.
You have to know the past to understand the present.
You have to know the past to understand the present.
The past is past and only a better Future can change that...
The past is past and only a better Future can change that...
What you need to know about the past is that no matter what has happened, it has all worked together read more
What you need to know about the past is that no matter what has happened, it has all worked together to bring you to this very moment. And this is the moment you can choose to make everything new. Right now.
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.