Every man's life lies within the present for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.
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The Past Our cradle, not our prison there is danger as well as appeal in its glamor. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repitition.
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Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.
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Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and archive 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.
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We live in the present, we dream of the future, but we learn eternal truths from the past.
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We can pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
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I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.
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One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past or in complaining against the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the essence of life.
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Forget the past and live the present hour.
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We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
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He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past.
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History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
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Let no sleep fall upon thy eyes till thou hast thrice re- viewed the transactions of the past day. Where have I turn-ed aside from rectitude? What have I been doing? What haveI left undone, which I ought to have done? Begin thus from the first act, and proceed; and, in conclusion, at the ill which thou hast done, be troubled, and rejoice for the good.
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If you live to the age of a hundred, you have it made because very very few people die past the age of a hundred.
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God cannot alter the past, that is why he is obliged to connive at the existence of historians.
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The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.
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One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us.
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Study the past, if you would divine the future.
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Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I?m past that age.
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Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
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A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insis tupon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today--and in fact we have forgotten.
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Philosophy triumphs easily over past and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.
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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we mustrise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
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Of that Equilibrium between Authority and Individual Action which constitutes Free Government, be settling on immutable foundations Liberty with Obedience to Law, Equality with Subjection to Authority, and Fraternity with Subordination to the Wisest and the Best: and of that Equilibrium between the Active Energy of the Will of the Present, expressed by the Vote of the People, and the Passive Stability and Permanence of the Will of the Past, expressed in constitutions of government, written or unwritten, and in laws and customs, gray with age and sanctified by time, as precedents and authority.
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