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 The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is 
found in the effect was already in the read more 
 The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is 
found in the effect was already in the cause. 
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.
Those who do remember it will find new ways to screw it up.
Those who do remember it will find new ways to screw it up.
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
 Weep no more, lady, weep no more,
 Thy sorrowe is in vaine,
  For violets pluckt, the sweetest read more 
 Weep no more, lady, weep no more,
 Thy sorrowe is in vaine,
  For violets pluckt, the sweetest showers
   Will ne'er make grow againe. 
 Therefore Agathon rightly says: "Of this alone even God is 
deprived, the power of making things that are past read more 
 Therefore Agathon rightly says: "Of this alone even God is 
deprived, the power of making things that are past never to have 
been." 
 Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of 
romance is dead. The age of read more 
 Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of 
romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past so long as 
there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.