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You have to know the past to understand the present.
You have to know the past to understand the present.
The age of chivalry is gone.--That of sophisters, economists and
calculators has succeeded.
The age of chivalry is gone.--That of sophisters, economists and
calculators has succeeded.
Look back, and smile on perils past.
Look back, and smile on perils past.
I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.
I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.
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.
Study the past if you would divine the future.
Study the past if you would divine the future.
Gone--glimmering through the dream of things that were.
Gone--glimmering through the dream of things that were.
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.
