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Carl Jung1 quote
Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced, and today we think this more than ever and are just as wrong as all previous ages that thought so. — Carl Jung · 1952Eugene Lee-Hamilton1 quote
Things bygone are the only things that last:
The Present is mere grass, quick-mown away;
The Past is stone, and stands for ever fast. — Eugene Lee-Hamilton · 1894George Orwell1 quote
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. — George Orwell · 1949Henri Bergson1 quote
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause. — Henri Bergson · 1907John Clare1 quote
The present is the funeral of the past,
And man the living sepulchre of life. — John Clare · 1845L.P. Hartley1 quote
The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there. — L.P. Hartley · 1953Old Paul Edgecomb1 quote
I guess sometimes the past just catches up with you, whether you want it to or not. — Old Paul Edgecomb · 1999Ralph Waldo Emerson1 quote
With the Past as past I have nothing to do, nor with the Future as future. I live now. — Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1839Thomas Babington Macaulay1 quote
No man who is correctly informed as to the past will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present. — Thomas Babington Macaulay · 1848William Faulkner1 quote
The past is never dead. It's not even past. — William Faulkner · 1951