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Quotes about past
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Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity. (Rubin Jerry)
Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense. (Rubin Jerry)
It is one thing to learn about the past; it is another to wallow in it. (Rubin Jerry)
Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time. (Rubin Jerry)
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Nostalgia is a seductive liar. (Rubin Jerry)
The past should be a springboard, not a hammock. (Rubin Jerry)
I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again, (Rubin Jerry)
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. (Rubin Jerry)
The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying. (Rubin Jerry)
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause. (Rubin Jerry)
Many are always praising the by-gone time, for it is natural that the old should extol the days of their youth; the weak, the time of their strength; the sick, the season of their vigor; and the disappointed, the spring-tide of their hopes. (Rubin Jerry)
If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present. (Rubin Jerry)
Your past is important, but it is not nearly as important to your present as the way you see your future. (Rubin Jerry)
The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive. (Rubin Jerry)
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. (Rubin Jerry)
To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another. (Rubin Jerry)
Study the past if you would divine the future. (Rubin Jerry)
May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future. (Rubin Jerry)
We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future. (Rubin Jerry)
The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. (Rubin Jerry)
The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past. (Rubin Jerry)
Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it. (Rubin Jerry)
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. (Rubin Jerry)
The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward. (Rubin Jerry)
It is not the literal past, the facts of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language. (Rubin Jerry)
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