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    You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.

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Enjoy the spring of love and youth,
To some good angel leave the rest,
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Enjoy the spring of love and youth,
To some good angel leave the rest,
For time will teach thee soon the truth,
"There are no birds in last year's nest."

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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."

by Sarah Doudney Found in: Past Quotes,
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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.

by Lyndon B. Johnson Found in: Past Quotes,
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The days of rejoicing are gone forever.
[Fr., Ils sont passes ces jours de fete.]

The days of rejoicing are gone forever.
[Fr., Ils sont passes ces jours de fete.]

by Jacques Du Lorens Found in: Past Quotes,
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Thou unrelenting past.

Thou unrelenting past.

by William Cullen Bryant Found in: Past Quotes,
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Move on!It's just a chapter in the past! But don't close the book,just turn the page....

Move on!It's just a chapter in the past! But don't close the book,just turn the page....

by Jerose Found in: Past Quotes,
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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.

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John Anderson, my jo, John,
When we were first acquent,
Your locks were like the raven,
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John Anderson, my jo, John,
When we were first acquent,
Your locks were like the raven,
Your bonny brow was brent.

by Robert Burns Found in: Past Quotes,
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Those who misremember the past are pleased to repreat it as "proof.".

Those who misremember the past are pleased to repreat it as "proof.".

by Mike Huybensz Found in: Past Quotes,
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