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    The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

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John Anderson, my jo, John,
When we were first acquent,
Your locks were like the raven,
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John Anderson, my jo, John,
When we were first acquent,
Your locks were like the raven,
Your bonny brow was brent.

by Robert Burns Found in: Past Quotes,
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The days of rejoicing are gone forever.
[Fr., Ils sont passes ces jours de fete.]

The days of rejoicing are gone forever.
[Fr., Ils sont passes ces jours de fete.]

by Jacques Du Lorens Found in: Past Quotes,
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The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

by Martin Luther King, Jr. Found in: Past Quotes,
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I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.

by Carl Sandburg Found in: Past Quotes,
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The free world must now prove itself worthy of its own past.

The free world must now prove itself worthy of its own past.

by Dwight D. Eisenhower Found in: Past Quotes,
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Look back, and smile on perils past.

Look back, and smile on perils past.

by Walter Scott Found in: Past Quotes,
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Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with read more

Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.

by Friedrich Nietzsche Found in: Past Quotes,
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No traces left of all the busy scene,
But that remembrances says: The things have been.

No traces left of all the busy scene,
But that remembrances says: The things have been.

by Samuel Boyse Found in: Past Quotes,
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Study the past if you would divine the future.

Study the past if you would divine the future.

by Confucius Found in: Past Quotes,
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