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Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
The best of prophets of the future is the past.
The best of prophets of the future is the past.
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.
O God! Put back Thy universe and give me yesterday.
O God! Put back Thy universe and give me yesterday.
Look back, and smile on perils past.
Look back, and smile on perils past.
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."
Oh! the good times when we were so unhappy.
[Fr., Oh le bon temps ou etions si malheureux.]
Oh! the good times when we were so unhappy.
[Fr., Oh le bon temps ou etions si malheureux.]
We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
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.
