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Therefore Agathon rightly says: "Of this alone even God is deprived, the power of making things that are past never to have been." - Aristotle, Ethics (bk. VI, ch. II), (R.W. Browne's translation) The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends. - Max Beerbohm The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause. - Henri Louis Bergson, Creative Evolution (ch. I) Many classes are always praising the by-gone time, for it is natural that the old should extol the days of their youth; the weak, the area of their strength; the sick, the season of their vigor; and the disappointed, the springtide of their hopes! - Caleb Bingham No traces left of all the busy scene, But that remembrances says: The things have been. - Samuel Boyse, The Deity Strangely enough, this is the past that somebody in the future is longing to go back to. - Ashleigh Brilliant I think that we honor ourselves by honoring our past. - Tom Brokaw But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past? - Robert Browning, Balaustion's Adventure Thou unrelenting past. - William Cullen Bryant, To the Past The light of other days is faded, And all their glories past. - Alfred Bunn, The Maid of Artois The age of chivalry is gone.--That of sophisters, economists and calculators has succeeded. - Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France John Anderson, my jo, John, When we were first acquent, Your locks were like the raven, Your bonny brow was brent. - Robert Burns, John Anderson No hand can make the clock strike for me the hours that are passed. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Gone--glimmering through the dream of things that were. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Childe Harold (canto II, st. 2) The best of prophets of the future is the past. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Letter I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there. - Herb Caen The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past. - Thomas Carlyle, Essays--Characteristics Not to know what happened before we were born is always to remain a child; to know, and blindly to adopt that knowledge as an implicit rule of life, is never to be a man. - Paul Chatfield (a/k/a Horace Smith) 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. - Mortimer Collins, Letter to the Rt. Hon. B. Disraeli, M.P., published anonymously 1869 Study the past, if you would divine the future. - Confucius The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet. - Cyril Connolly 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." - Sarah Doudney, Lesson of the Water-Mill Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour. - John Dryden, Imitation of Horace (bk. III, ode XXIX, l. 71) The days of rejoicing are gone forever. [Fr., Ils sont passes ces jours de fete.] - Jacques Du Lorens, Le Tableau Parlant Oh! the good times when we were so unhappy. [Fr., Oh le bon temps ou etions si malheureux.] - Alexandre Dumas pere, The Conspirators (II, 318), (also titled Le Chevalier d'Harmental) Displaying page 1 of 3 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2 3
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