past quotes

• We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. (George Bernard Shaw) [past/responsibility/future]
• Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it. (Vladimir Nabokov) [past]
• For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon. (Henry Kissinger) [past]
• We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible. (George Santayana) [future/willpower/past/respect]
• Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. (George Santayana) [remember/past]
• Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) [look/past/present/future]
• Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future. (William Wordsworth) [life/willpower/past/profit]
• In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared. () [past]
• The establishment of democracy on the American continent was scarcely as radical a break with the past as was the necessity, which Americans faced, of broadening this concept to include black men. (James Baldwin) [democracy/past/men]
• Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred. (Walter Benjamin) [memory/past/theatre/past]
• 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) [past/past]
• If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present. () [feelings/past/ability/present]
• The things you want are always possible; it is just that the way to get them is not always apparent. The only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life is you, and that can be a considerable obstacle because you carry the baggage of insecurities and past experience. () [path/life/past/experience]
• If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians. (Warren Buffett) [past/people]
• A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face. (Billie Burke) [past/mind/face]
• You can never plan the future by the past. (Edmund Burke) [future/past]
• God cannot alter the past, but historians can. (Samuel Butler) [god/past]
• Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed. (Eileen Caddy) [past/point/time/moment]
• Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die. (Thomas Carlyle) [past/truth]
• The whole past is the procession of the present. (Thomas Carlyle) [past/present]
• The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive. (Thomas Carlyle) [past]
• The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change. (Thomas Carlyle) [past/truth/change]
• He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals. (Miguel De Cervantes) [past]
• Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [age/past]
• For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself. (Winston Churchill) [willpower/past]
• If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future. (Winston Churchill) [quarrel/past/present/find]
• Sweet is the memory of past troubles. (Marcus Cicero) [memory/past]
• Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge. (Marcus Cicero) [child/past/knowledge]
• There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow. (Marcus Cicero) [pleasure/calm/past/sorrow]
• Study the past if you would divine the future. ( Confucius) [past/future]
• I dare say I am compelled, unconsciously compelled, now to write volume after volume, as in past years I was compelled to go to sea, voyage after voyage. Leaves must follow upon each other as leagues used to follow in the days gone by, on and on to the appointed end, which, being truth itself, is one -- one for all men and for all occupations. (Joseph Conrad) [past/follow/follow/start]

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