I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.

O, to bring back the great Homeric time,
The simple manners and the deed sublime:
When the read more

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.

Don't brood on the past, but don't forget it either.

Don't brood on the past, but don't forget it either.

Study the past if you would divine the future.

Study the past if you would divine the future.

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is read more

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

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.

Weep no more, lady, weep no more,
Thy sorrowe is in vaine,
For violets pluckt, the sweetest read more

Weep no more, lady, weep no more,
Thy sorrowe is in vaine,
For violets pluckt, the sweetest showers
Will ne'er make grow againe.

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

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

O God! Put back Thy universe and give me yesterday.

O God! Put back Thy universe and give me yesterday.