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The best of prophets of the future is the past.
The best of prophets of the future is the past.
Look back, and smile on perils past.
Look back, and smile on perils past.
The past is past and only a better Future can change that...
The past is past and only a better Future can change that...
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 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.
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."
We remain
Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past.
We remain
Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past.
May the dreams of your past be the reality of your future
May the dreams of your past be the reality of your future
