Past Quotations
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| What you need to know about the past is that no matter what has happened, it has all worked together to bring you to this very moment. And this is the moment you can choose to make everything new. Right now. | |||
| - Unknown Author | |||
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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 | |||
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| I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there. | |||
| - Herb Caen | |||
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| We need not destroy the past. It is gone. | |||
| - John Cage | |||
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| The past is not a package one can lay away. | |||
| - Emily Dickinson | |||
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| Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird. | |||
| - Paul Eldridge | |||
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| The Past lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body. | |||
| - Nathaniel Hawthorne | |||
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| Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear. | |||
| - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | |||
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| I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present. | |||
| - William Somerset Maugham | |||
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| A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body. | |||
| - André Maurois | |||
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| The past is strapped to our backs. We do not have to see it; we can always feel it. | |||
| - Mignon McLaughlin | |||
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| One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present. | |||
| - Golda Meir | |||
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| Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. | |||
| - George Santayana | |||
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| God has no power over the past except to cover it with oblivion. | |||
| - Caius Plinius Secundus | |||
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| The one charm of the past is that it is the past. | |||
| - Oscar Wilde | |||
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| Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book shown to him by heart, and his friends can only read the title. | |||
| - Virginia Woolf | |||