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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."

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It's linkage I'm talking about, and harmonies and structures, And all the various things that lock our wrists to the read more

It's linkage I'm talking about, and harmonies and structures, And all the various things that lock our wrists to the past.

by Charles Wright Found in: Past Quotes,
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The past always looks better than it was; it's only pleasant because it isn't here.

The past always looks better than it was; it's only pleasant because it isn't here.

by Finley Peter Dunne Found in: Past Quotes,
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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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Thou unrelenting past.

Thou unrelenting past.

by William Cullen Bryant Found in: Past Quotes,
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You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the read more

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

by Jan Glidewell 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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Gone--glimmering through the dream of things that were.

Gone--glimmering through the dream of things that were.

by George Gordon Noel Byron Found in: Past Quotes,
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The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.

The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.

by Thomas Carlyle 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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