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Those who misremember the past are pleased to repreat it as "proof.".
Those who misremember the past are pleased to repreat it as "proof.".
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.
The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.
The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.
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.
The free world must now prove itself worthy of its own past.
The free world must now prove itself worthy of its own past.
Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of
romance is dead. The age of read more
Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of
romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past so long as
there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.
We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished- for state. When did history become a bad word?
We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished- for state. When did history become a bad word?
Listen to the Water-Mill:
Through the live-long day
How the clicking of its wheel
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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."
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.