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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.
Not heaven itself upon the past has power;
But what has been, has been, and I have had my read more
Not heaven itself upon the past has power;
But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
Study the past if you would divine the future.
Study the past if you would divine the future.
Nostalgia is a seductive liar.
Nostalgia is a seductive liar.
We remain
Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past.
We remain
Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past.
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.
O Death! O Change! O Time!
Without you, O! the insufferable eyes
Of these poor Might-Have-Beens,
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O Death! O Change! O Time!
Without you, O! the insufferable eyes
Of these poor Might-Have-Beens,
These fatuous, ineffectual yesterdays.
The past is past and only a better Future can change that...
The past is past and only a better Future can change that...
The free world must now prove itself worthy of its own past.
The free world must now prove itself worthy of its own past.
