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

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

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."

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.

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

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

Gone--glimmering through the dream of things that were.

Gone--glimmering through the dream of things that were.

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.

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.]

I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again,

I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again,

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.