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What is past and cannot be prevented should not be grieved for.
-American Indian Proverb
Pawnee
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There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.
-Proverb
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Nothing is as new as something which as been long forgotten.
-Proverb
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Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity.
-John Adams
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Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.
-George Ade
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The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated into a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.
-Spiro T. Agnew
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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past
-Henri Frederic Amiel
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'Tis not to see the world
As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes,
And heart profoundly stirred;
And weep, and feel the fullness of the past,
The years that are not more.
-Matthew Arnold
Growing Old
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It is one thing to learn about the past; it is another to wallow in it.
-Kenneth Auchincloss
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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.
-Gaston Bachelard
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Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.
-Francis Bacon
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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.
-Pearl Bailey
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Nostalgia is a seductive liar.
-George W. Ball
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The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.
-Ivern Ball
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I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again,
-Charlotte Barnard
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A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.
-James Barrie
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As lousy as things are now, tomorrow they will be somebody's good old days.
-Gerald Barzan
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The past empowers the present, and the sweeping footsteps leading to this present mark the pathways to the future.
-Mary Catherine Bateson
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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.
-Walter Benjamin
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The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world would begin to turn the other way round.
-Arnold Bennett
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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
-John Berger
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The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
-Henri Bergson
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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.
-Caleb Bingham
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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!
-Edwin C. Bliss
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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.
-Les Brown
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