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O, to bring back the great Homeric time,
The simple manners and the deed sublime:
When the read more
O, to bring back the great Homeric time,
The simple manners and the deed sublime:
When the wise Wanderer, often foiled by Fate,
Through the long furrow drave the ploughshare straight.
I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.
I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.
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?
Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with read more
Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.
The good of other times let people state;
I think it lucky I was born so late.
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The good of other times let people state;
I think it lucky I was born so late.
[Lat., Prisca juvent alios; ego me nunc denique natum Gratulor.]
We remain
Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past.
We remain
Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past.
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.
