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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.
The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.
The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.
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.
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.
You have to know the past to understand the present.
You have to know the past to understand the present.
Those who misremember the past are pleased to repreat it as "proof.".
Those who misremember the past are pleased to repreat it as "proof.".
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.
O God! Put back Thy universe and give me yesterday.
O God! Put back Thy universe and give me yesterday.
