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Nostalgia is a seductive liar.
Nostalgia is a seductive liar.
You have to know the past to understand the present.
You have to know the past to understand the present.
O, to bring back the great Homeric time,
The simple manners and the deed sublime:
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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.
We remain
Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past.
We remain
Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past.
The past is past and only a better Future can change that...
The past is past and only a better Future can change that...
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.
Don't brood on the past, but don't forget it either.
Don't brood on the past, but don't forget it either.
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.
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.
