Past Quotes - Page 6

• We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.

  George Santayana

  Future, Welcome, Remember

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• The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past.

  Mary Webb

  Tomorrow, Invisible, Mute

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• In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.

  Edmund Burke

  Wisdom, Errors, Drawing

  Edmund Burke (1790). “Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. In a Letter Intended to Have Been Sent to a Gentleman in Paris”, p.208

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• Bring the past only if you are going to build from it.

  Domenico Cieri

  Letting Go, Criminal Mind, Ifs

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• Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past.

  Jack London

  Tattoo, Men, Interesting

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• Those who do remember it will find new ways to screw it up.

  Charles Wolfe

  Way, Remember, Screws

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• Remembrance of things past.

  William Shakespeare

  Remembrance, Nostalgia, Things Past

  Sonnet 30

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• It's linkage I'm talking about, and harmonies and structures, And all the various things that lock our wrists to the past.

  Charles Wright

  Talking, Locks, Harmony

  Charles Wright (2014). “The World of the Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980-1990”, p.79, Macmillan

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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

  Love, Time, Memories

  "Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (A Retrospective Glance at the Lifework of a Master of Books)". Book by Gaston Bachelard edited by Suzanne Bachelard, 1988.

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• If the only new thing we have to offer is an improved version of the past, then today can only be inferior to yesterday. Hypnotized by images of the past, we risk losing all capacity for creative change.

  Robert Hewison

  Yesterday, Creative, Risk

  Robert Hewison (1987). “The heritage industry: Britain in a climate of decline”, Methuen

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• We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?

  John Guare

  World, States, Amnesia

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• The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Twitter post from Jan 30, 2017

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• A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body.

  Andre Maurois

  Men, Body

  Andre Maurois (2007). “An Art of Living”, p.50, SpiralPress

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• Praise they that will times past, I joy to see My selfe now live: this age best pleaseth mee.

  Robert Herrick

  Joy, Age, Praise

  'The Present Time Best Pleaseth'

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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

  Wise, Memories, Women

  Pearl Bailey (1976). “Hurry up, America, & spit”, Harcourt

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• The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.

  Wendell Berry

  Inspirational, Wise, Memories

  Wendell Berry (2011). “Standing by Words”, p.14, Counterpoint Press

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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.

  Sarah Doudney

  Autumn, Wind, Long

  Sarah Doudney (2017). “Sarah Doudney: Selected Poems and Hymns”, p.71, Lulu.com

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• 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.

  Mortimer Collins

  Wise, Fate, Simple

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• Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.

  William Ralph Inge

  Sarcastic, Wise, Sarcasm

  William Ralph Inge (1929). “Assessments and Anticipations”, Cassell

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• When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Philosophy, Tired, Long Ago

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• The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.

  Cyril Connolly

  Sweet, Smell, Cynical

  David Pryce-Jones, Cyril Connolly (1983). “Cyril Connolly: Journal and Memoir”, HarperCollins

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• The past is never where you think you left it.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Thinking, Left

  Katherine Anne Porter (2015). “Ship of Fools: A Novel”, p.123, Open Road Media

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• Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Looks, One Tree Hill Love, One Tree Hill Voiceover

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.2016, Delphi Classics

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• Enjoy every minute you have with those you love, my dear, for no one can take joy that is past away from you. It will be there in your heart to live on when the dark days come.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Heart, Dark, Joy

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (1989). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945”

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

  Robert Browning

  Life, Lying, Way

  Robert Browning (1912). “The poetical works of Robert Browning”

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