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William Shakespeare
What is past is prologue
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Confucius
Study the past, if you would divine the future
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Oscar Wilde
One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged
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Oscar Wilde
No man is rich enough to buy back his past
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William Wordsworth
For old, unhappy, far-off things,
And battles long ago.
The Solitary Reaper
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William Wordsworth
The thought of our past years in me doth breed
Perpetual benediction.
Intimations of Immortality
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Henry Longfellow
Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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