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    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.

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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.]

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The past is behind, just learn from it. The future is ahead, must prepare for it. The present is here; read more

The past is behind, just learn from it. The future is ahead, must prepare for it. The present is here; you gotta live it..

by Jerose Found in: Past Quotes,
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To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

by Charles Caleb Colton Found in: Past Quotes,
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Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with read more

Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.

by Friedrich Nietzsche Found in: Past Quotes,
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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.

by Thomas Percy Found in: Past Quotes,
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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.

by Henri Bergson Found in: Past Quotes,
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The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

by Martin Luther King, Jr. Found in: Past Quotes,
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The light of other days is faded,
And all their glories past.

The light of other days is faded,
And all their glories past.

by Alfred Bunn Found in: Past Quotes,
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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.

by Henri Louis Bergson Found in: Past Quotes,
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