Past Quotes

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The past, though it cannot be relived, can always be repaire

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

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Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.

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From the wreck of the past, which hath perishWritten to his

From the wreck of the past, which hath perishWritten to his half sister following his exile on grounds of incest with her.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron, To A

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

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

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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and ye

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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There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

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

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

Charles Caleb Colton

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If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot t

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.

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Your past is important, but it is not nearly as important to

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

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With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past

With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame.

George Eliot, Middlemarch

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by now you've already formed your own impression. you believ

by now you've already formed your own impression. you believe that an act committed a lifetime ago defines a man, or you believe that a person's past has nothing to do with his future. you think i am either a hero, or a monster. maybe knowning more about circumstances will make you think differently about me, but it won't change what happened twenty-eight years ago.

Life Judgement Past