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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.
The best of prophets of the future is the past.
The best of prophets of the future is the past.
Therefore Agathon rightly says: "Of this alone even God is
deprived, the power of making things that are past read more
Therefore Agathon rightly says: "Of this alone even God is
deprived, the power of making things that are past never to have
been."
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.
The past is past and only a better Future can change that...
The past is past and only a better Future can change that...
Nostalgia is a seductive liar.
Nostalgia is a seductive liar.
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.
Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live read more
Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.
