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“Praise they that will times past, I joy to see My selfe now live: this age best pleaseth mee.”

Age Past Joy Praise Times Past

Author:Robert Herrick

“Our days of praise shall ne'er be past While life, and thought, and being last, And immortality endures.”

Lasts Past Praise Endure Immortality

Author:William Morley Punshon

“Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great prophets of the past.”

Firsts Facts Past Praise Islam Prophet Pluralism Pluralism Is

Author:Karen Armstrong

“To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years.”

Years Mind Past My Own Five Meditation Amount Praise Thirty Five Years Coincidence

Author:Carl Friedrich Gauss

“We sometimes condemn the present, by praising the past; and show our contempt of what is now, by our esteem for what is no more.”

Sometimes Shows Past Praise Esteem Contempt

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Theirs is the present who can praise the past.”

Book:Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith, Tobias Smollett, Samuel Johnson and William Shenstone

Source: Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith, Tobias Smollett, Samuel Johnson and William Shenstone

“Ressentiment is always to some degree a determinant of the romantic type of mind. At least this is so when the romantic nostalgia for some past era (Hellas, the Middle Ages, etc.) is not primarily based on the values of that period, but on the wish to escape from the present. Then all praise of the “past” has the implied purpose of downgrading present-day reality.”

Mind Reality Age Past Purpose Values Wish Middle Type Periods Degrees Praise Nostalgia Eras Etc Middle Ages Present Day Implied Downgrading

Book:On Feeling, Knowing, and Valuing: Selected Writings

Source: On Feeling, Knowing, and Valuing: Selected Writings

“We praise times past, while we times present use; Yet due the worship which to each we give.”

Giving Use Past Worship Praise Dues Times Past

Author:Ovid