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Past

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

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

Fredrich

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.

Moon, William Least Heat

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).

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

Berger, John

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

Friel, Brian

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Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.

Rich, Adrienne

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

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

Weil, Simone

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The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

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

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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Gorky, Maxim

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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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Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Saying

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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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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

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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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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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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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You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

Stern, Richard Martin

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Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

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Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.

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That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

Wordsworth, William

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

Proverb, German

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There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

Proverb, French

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

Wolfe, Charles

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Mr. Meant-to has a friend, his name is Didn't-Do. Have you met them? They live together in a house called Never-Win. And I am told that it is haunted by the Ghost of Might-have-Been.

Collins, Marva

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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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The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Look back, and smile at perils past.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

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They spend their time looking forward to the past.

Osborne, John

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

Horace

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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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The Past -- the dark unfathomed retrospect! The teeming gulf --the sleepers and the shadows! The past! the infinite greatness of the past! For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past?

Whitman, Walt

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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.

Webb, Mary

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

La Farge, John