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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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Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.

Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.

by Adrienne Rich Found in: Past Quotes,
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The next day is never so good as the day before.

The next day is never so good as the day before.

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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 best of prophets of the future is the past.

The best of prophets of the future is the past.

by George Gordon Noel Byron Found in: Past Quotes,
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The free world must now prove itself worthy of its own past.

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

by Dwight D. Eisenhower Found in: Past Quotes,
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Those who do remember it will find new ways to screw it up.

Those who do remember it will find new ways to screw it up.

by Charles Wolfe 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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What you need to know about the past is that no matter what has happened, it has all worked together read more

What you need to know about the past is that no matter what has happened, it has all worked together to bring you to this very moment. And this is the moment you can choose to make everything new. Right now.

by Charles R. Swindoll 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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