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Past

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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There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

Proverb, French

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Barzan, Gerald

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.

Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past.

Hedge, Francis Herbert

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

Buffett, Warren

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

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

Friel, Brian

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

Dickson, Paul

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Look back, and smile at perils past.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Horace

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

Weil, Simone

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Don't brood on the past, but don't forget it either.

Raddal, Thomas H.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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I never look back, I look forward.

Graf, Steffi

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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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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.

Steiner, George

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If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.

Hoban, Russell

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I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again,

Barnard, Charlotte

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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.

Benjamin, Walter

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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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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.

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The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.

Fredrich

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

Berger, John

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

Givens, Charles J.

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

Saying

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

Guare, John

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Your past is important, but it is not nearly as important to your present as the way you see your future.

Campolo, Tony

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

Ovid

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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.

Didion, Joan

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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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.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

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

Proverb, German

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

Wolfe, Charles

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Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

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

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

La Farge, John