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The tender grace of a day that is dead will never come back to me. - Lord Alfred Tennyson The eternal landscape of the past. - Lord Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam (pt. XLVI) The present is only intelligible in the light of the past. - Archbishop Richard Chenevix Trench Oh seize the instant time; you never will With water once passed by impel the mill. - Archbishop Richard Chenevix Trench, Poems, (ed. 1865), p. 303, "Proverbs, Turkish and Persian" The past, at least, is secure. - Daniel Webster Men like women with a past because they hope history will repeat itself. - Mae West The past is dead, and has no resurrection. - Henry Kirke White Many a woman has a past; but I am told she has at least a dozen, and that they all fit. - Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde), Lady Windermere's Fan (act I, A Woman with a Past) The past is utterly indifferent to its worshipers. - William Winter Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title. - Virginia Woolf (nee Stephen) (Adeline Virginia Woolf) Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower. - William Wordsworth, Ode--Intimations of Immortality (st. 10) For old, unhappy, far-off things, And battles long ago. - William Wordsworth, The Solitary Reaper Whose yesterdays look backward with a smile. - Edward Young That awful independent on to-morrow! Whose work is done; who triumphs in the past; Whose yesterdays look backward with a smile Nor, like the Parthian, wound him as they fly. - Edward Young, Night Thoughts (night II, l. 322) Displaying page 4 of 4 for this topic: << Prev 1 2 3 [4]
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