The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.

The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

You have to know the past to understand the present.

You have to know the past to understand the present.

But how carve way i' the life that lies before,
If bent on groaning ever for the past?

But how carve way i' the life that lies before,
If bent on groaning ever for the past?

The light of other days is faded,
And all their glories past.

The light of other days is faded,
And all their glories past.

Gone--glimmering through the dream of things that were.

Gone--glimmering through the dream of things that were.

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.

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.