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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.

Bingham, Caleb

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.

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

Wolfe, Charles

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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.

Proust, Marcel

It is not the literal past, the facts of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.

Friel, Brian

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.

Benjamin, Walter

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.

Webb, Mary

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.

Hewison, Robert

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

Eliot, T. S.

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If you're still hanging onto a dead dream of yesterday, laying flowers on its grave by the hour, you cannot be planting the seeds for a new dream to grow today.

Chapman, Joyce

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What is past is prologue.

Shakespeare, William

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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.

Sandburg, Carl

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

Weil, Simone

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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.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

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

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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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.

Bachelard, Gaston

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To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.

Givens, Charles J.

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The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

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May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future.

Dickson, Paul

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

Horace

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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.

Brown, Les

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Look back, and smile at perils past.

Scott, Sir Walter

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As lousy as things are now, tomorrow they will be somebody's good old days.

Barzan, Gerald

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

Saying

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

Proverb, German

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Berger, John

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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.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Gorky, Maxim

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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.

Bailey, Pearl

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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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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.

Pound, Ezra

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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.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.

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The past does not equal the future.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Buffett, Warren

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The past, though it cannot be relived, can always be repaired.

La Farge, John

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It is one thing to learn about the past; it is another to wallow in it.

Auchincloss, Kenneth

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I never look back, I look forward.

Graf, Steffi

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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.

Sontag, Susan

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Yesterday is a canceled check: Forget it. Tomorrow is a promissory note: Don't count on it. Today is ready cash: Use it!

Bliss, Edwin C.

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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, Sidonie Gabrielle

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The people who get into trouble in our company are those who carry around the anchor of the past.

Welch, John