Past

(221 votes)   If you are enthusiastic toward today and excited about tomorrow. It's impossible to live in the past!

Sean P. O'Dea

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(190 votes)   It is one thing to learn about the past; it is another to wallow in it.

Kenneth Auchincloss

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

Marcus Valerius Martial
40-104, Latin poet and epigrammatist

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(181 votes)   Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity.

John Adams
1735-1826, Second President of the USA

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(148 votes)   Nothing is as new as something which as been long forgotten.

German Proverbs
Sayings of German Origin

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(103 votes)   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.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(89 votes)   The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
1890-1969, Thirty-fourth President of the USA

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

Thomas Carlyle
1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

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(88 votes)   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.

Sir Walter Raleigh
1552-1618, British Courtier, Navigator, Writer

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(85 votes)   Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it.

T. S. Eliot
1888-1965, American-born British Poet, Critic

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(84 votes)   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.

Sir James M. Barrie
1860-1937, British Playwright

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(75 votes)   If you must cry over spilled milk then please try to condense it

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(74 votes)   Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.

Friedrich Nietzsche
1844-1900, German Philosopher

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(73 votes)   Things without remedy, should be without regard; what is done, is done.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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

John Welch
1935-, American Businessman, Chairman of General Electric

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