 | "This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past."
- Agathon
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| "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
- George Santayana
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| "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."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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| "I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there."
- Herb Caen
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| "The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character."
- Isabelle Eberhardt
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| "We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it."
- Lyndon B. Johnson
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| "Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition."
- Sir William Osler
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| "I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present."
- W. Somerset Maugham
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| "Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter."
- William Ralph Inge
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