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The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.
The Present is the living sum-total of the whole 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.
The light of other days is faded,
And all their glories past.
The light of other days is faded,
And all their glories past.
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.
The free world must now prove itself worthy of its own past.
The free world must now prove itself worthy of its own past.
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is
found in the effect was already in the read more
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is
found in the effect was already in the cause.
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.]
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
