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Quote 3012
I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeralby: John BurroughsShowing Quotes on past
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Quote 3005
Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.by: John BurroughsShowing Quotes on past
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Quote 2815
No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adamby: Charles LambShowing Quotes on past
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Quote 2813
Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.by: Charles LambShowing Quotes on past
Quote 2754
Remember that lost time does not return.by: Thomas a KempisShowing Quotes on past
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Quote 2613
We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.Showing Quotes on past
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Quote 2601
A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of othersShowing Quotes on past
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Quote 2545
The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.Showing Quotes on past
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Quote 2540
The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point of vantage, from which alone men see the town in which they live or the age in which they are livingShowing Quotes on past
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Quote 2457
God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past agesShowing Quotes on past
Quote 2354
We come too late to say anything which has not been said alreadyShowing Quotes on past
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Quote 2321
Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.Showing Quotes on past
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Quote 2232
If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterdayShowing Quotes on past
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Quote 2225
One faces the future with one's pastShowing Quotes on past
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Quote 2203
I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upwardby: Charlotte BronteShowing Quotes on past
Quote 2182
The past, the present and the future are really one: they are todayShowing Quotes on past
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Quote 2177
But what is past my help is past my careShowing Quotes on past
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Quote 2088
What is now proved was once only imagined.by: William BlakeShowing Quotes on past
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Quote 1814
Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on themby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on past
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Quote 1811
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unbornby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on past
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Quote 1806
It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecutionby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on past
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Quote 1672
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.by: Thomas JeffersonShowing Quotes on past
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Quote 1668
God cannot alter the past, though historians canby: Samuel ButlerShowing Quotes on past
Quote 1526
You can never plan the future by the pastby: Edmund BurkeShowing Quotes on past
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Quote 1147
The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.by: Ernest RenanShowing Quotes on past
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Quote 1116
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwardsShowing Quotes on past
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Quote 1103
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have beenby: Mark TwainShowing Quotes on past
Quote 1079
Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years agoShowing Quotes on past
Quote 998
Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dreamby: Khalil GibranShowing Quotes on past
Quote 876
Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfactionShowing Quotes on past
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Quote 851
A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living forunknownShowing Quotes on past
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Quote 802
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within usShowing Quotes on past
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Quote 529
The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hourfrom JapanShowing Quotes on past
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Quote 472
History is a set of lies agreed uponby: NapoleonShowing Quotes on past
Quote 420
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.by: Abraham LincolnShowing Quotes on past
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Quote 296
Every saint has a past and every sinner has a futureShowing Quotes on past
Quote 210
I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love todayShowing Quotes on past
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Quote 207
The best of prophets of the future is the pastShowing Quotes on past
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