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A lot of people go through life like they are rowing a boat. They look at where they have been (the PAST) rather than where they are going (the FUTURE).

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A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.

J. M. Barrie

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All the king's horses and all the king's men can't put the past together again. So let's remember: Don't try to saw sawdust.

Dale Carnegie

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Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.

Robert H. Schuller

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Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.

Francis Bacon

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Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.

Horace

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Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.

Adrienne Rich

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Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.

Philip Sidney

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I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.

Colette

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I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.

Carl Sandburg

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If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present.

Les Brown

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If you look back too much, you will soon be headed that way

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If you must cry over spilled milk then please try to condense it

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It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past. Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past.

George Steiner

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It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

Past
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It's very expressive of myself. I just lump everything in a great heap which I have labeled the past, and, having thus emptied this deep reservoir that was once myself, I am ready to continue.

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Living in the past has one thing going for it; it's cheaper!

Past
19

Look back, and smile at perils past.

Walter Scott

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Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.

Denis Waitley

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Nothing is as new as something which as been long forgotten.

Past
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Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

George Ade

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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. To remain in touch with the past requires a love of memory. To remain in touch with the past requires a constant imaginative effort.

Gaston Bachelard

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25

One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

Oscar Wilde

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Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it.

T. S. Eliot

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Posterity will pay everyone their due.

Tacitus

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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

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Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

William Penn

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30

Study the past if you would divine the future.

Confucius

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That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

William Wordsworth

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The beauty of the past is that it is the past. The beauty of the now is to know it. The beauty of the future is to see where one is going.

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The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

Simone Weil

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The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Albert Einstein

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The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.

Ovid

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The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.

Warren Buffett

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The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards the future, towards a future which has itself become the past, and draw us on in their train.

Marcel Proust

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The next day is never so good as the day before.

Publilius Syrus

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The Past -- the dark unfathomed retrospect! The teeming gulf --the sleepers and the shadows! The past! the infinite greatness of the past! For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past?

Walt Whitman

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The past always looks better than it was because it isn't here.

Finley Peter Dunne

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The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale unbodied shades to warn us from fleshless lips.

François Fénelon

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The past does not equal the future.

Tony Robbins

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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

John Berger

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The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.

Thomas Carlyle

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The past is at least secure.

Daniel Webster

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

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects --making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.

Susan Sontag

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The rewards in life go to those who are willing to give up the past

Past
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The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.

Walter Benjamin

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There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you -- if you don't repeat it.

Pearl Bailey

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There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternally new now that builds and creates itself out of the Best as the past withdraws.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

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Things without remedy, should be without regard; what is done, is done.

William Shakespeare

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Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity.

John Adams

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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

George Santayana

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To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.

Martial

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To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Charles Caleb Colton

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We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4am of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends. We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

Joan Didion

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We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on here and there, but what we know we know by ripples and spirals eddying out from us and from our own time.

Ezra Pound

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We have seen better days.

William Shakespeare

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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

Frederick Douglass

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63

What is past is prologue.

William Shakespeare

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While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

Ronald Reagan

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Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.

George Orwell

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Who so desireth to know what will be hereafter, let him think of what is past, for the world hath ever been in a circular revolution; whatsoever is now, was heretofore; and things past or present, are no other than such as shall be again: Redit orbis in orbem.

Walter Raleigh

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With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame.

George Eliot

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A lot of people go through life like they are rowing a boat. They look at where they have been (the PAST) rather than where they are going (the FUTURE).

A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.

All the king's horses and all the king's men can't put the past together again. So let's remember: Don't try to saw sawdust.

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.

Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.

Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.

Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.

Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.

I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.

If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present.

If you look back too much, you will soon be headed that way

If you must cry over spilled milk then please try to condense it

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

It's very expressive of myself. I just lump everything in a great heap which I have labeled the past, and, having thus emptied this deep reservoir that was once myself, I am ready to continue.

Living in the past has one thing going for it; it's cheaper!

Look back, and smile at perils past.

Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.

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

Nothing is as new as something which as been long forgotten.

Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. To remain in touch with the past requires a love of memory. To remain in touch with the past requires a constant imaginative effort.

One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it.

Posterity will pay everyone their due.

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

Study the past if you would divine the future.

That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

The beauty of the past is that it is the past. The beauty of the now is to know it. The beauty of the future is to see where one is going.

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.

The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.

The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.

The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards the future, towards a future which has itself become the past, and draw us on in their train.

The next day is never so good as the day before.

The Past -- the dark unfathomed retrospect! The teeming gulf --the sleepers and the shadows! The past! the infinite greatness of the past! For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past?

The past always looks better than it was because it isn't here.

The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale unbodied shades to warn us from fleshless lips.

The past does not equal the future.

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.

The past is at least secure.

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

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects --making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.

The rewards in life go to those who are willing to give up the past

The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.

There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you -- if you don't repeat it.

There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternally new now that builds and creates itself out of the Best as the past withdraws.

There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

Things without remedy, should be without regard; what is done, is done.

Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on here and there, but what we know we know by ripples and spirals eddying out from us and from our own time.

We have seen better days.

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

What is past is prologue.

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.

Who so desireth to know what will be hereafter, let him think of what is past, for the world hath ever been in a circular revolution; whatsoever is now, was heretofore; and things past or present, are no other than such as shall be again: Redit orbis in orbem.