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To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.
To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.
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.
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.
No traces left of all the busy scene,
But that remembrances says: The things have been.
No traces left of all the busy scene,
But that remembrances says: The things have been.
Enjoy the spring of love and youth,
To some good angel leave the rest,
For time will read more
Enjoy the spring of love and youth,
To some good angel leave the rest,
For time will teach thee soon the truth,
"There are no birds in last year's nest."
Don't brood on the past, but don't forget it either.
Don't brood on the past, but don't forget it either.
I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.
I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
The next day is never so good as the day before.
The next day is never so good as the day before.
