The free world must now prove itself worthy of its own past.

The free world must now prove itself worthy of its own 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.

O God! Put back Thy universe and give me yesterday.

O God! Put back Thy universe and give me yesterday.

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.

Listen to the Water-Mill:
Through the live-long day
How the clicking of its wheel
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Listen to the Water-Mill:
Through the live-long day
How the clicking of its wheel
Wears the hours away!
Languidly the Autumn wind
Stirs the forest leaves,
From the field the reapers sing
Binding up their sheaves:
And a proverb haunts my mind
As a spell is cast,
"The mill cannot grind
With the water that is past."

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.]

Study the past if you would divine the future.

Study the past if you would divine the future.

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.