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“There is only one courage and that is the courage to go on dying to the past, not to collect it, not to accumulate it, not to cling to it. We all cling to the past and because we cling to the past we become unavailable to the present.”

Wisdom Past Wise Dying Goes On Clever

Author:Rajneesh

“O, to bring back the great Homeric time, The simple manners and the deed sublime: When the wise Wanderer, often foiled by Fate, Through the long furrow drave the ploughshare straight.”

Long Past Simple Wise Fate Deeds Manners Sublime Wanderers

Author:Mortimer Collins

“The man who broods over the past can never master the difficulties of today. Every wise man learn to forget.”

Men Today Past Forget Wise He Man Masters Difficulty Over The Past Forget The Past Very Wise

Author:Herbert Newton Casson

“We believe we are entitled to the gift of the Holy Ghost in extent according to the discretion and wisdom of God and our faithfulness; which gift brings all things to our remembrance, past, present, and to come, that are necessary for us to know, and as far as our minds are prepared to receive the knowledge of God revealed by that all-wise Agent. The Holy Ghost is God's minister, and is delegated to visit the sons and daughters of men. All intelligent beings pertaining to this earth are instructed from the same source.”

“The stupid speak of the past, the wise of the present, and fools of the future.”

Past Speak Wise Stupid Fool

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“The wise form right judgment of the present from what is past.”

Wisdom Past Form Wise Judgment

Author:Sophocles

“A nature wise With finding in itself the types of all, With watching from the dim verge of the time What things to be are visible in the gleams Thrown forward on them from the luminous past, Wise with the history of its own frail heart, With reverence and sorrow, and with love, Broad as the world, for freedom and for man.”

Men World Heart Character Past Wise Type Sorrow Findings Visible Thrown Broads Reverence Luminous Verge Frail Gleam

Book:Miscellaneous poems. Memorial verses. Sonnets. I-XXVII. L'Envoi. Vision of Sir Launfal

Source: Miscellaneous poems. Memorial verses. Sonnets. I-XXVII. L'Envoi. Vision of Sir Launfal

“To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.”

Different Past Wise Degrees Mark Interpretation Different Interpretations

Author:Andre Gide

“A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.”

Thinking Persons Past Lying Wise Regret Source Anticipation Calamity Express Yourself No Regrets I Regret Have No Regrets Past Regrets

Author:Oliver Goldsmith

“Without oblivion, there is no remembrance possible. When both oblivion and memory are wise, when the general soul of man is clear, melodious, true, there may come a modern Iliad as memorial of the Past.”

Men May Soul Past Memories Clear Wise Modern Remembrance Oblivion Memorial Iliad

Book:Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: With Elucidations

Source: Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: With Elucidations

“God lead us past the setting of the sun To wizard islands, of august surprise; God make our blunders wise.”

Wisdom Past Sun Wise Surprise Setting Settings Islands Wizards August Blunders

Book:The poetry of Vachel Lindsay: complete & with Lindsay's drawings

Source: The poetry of Vachel Lindsay: complete & with Lindsay's drawings

“In recent years, we've become enamored with our own past success. Lulled into complacency by the glitter of our own achievements. We've become accustomed to the title of Military Superpower, forgetting the qualities that got us there. We've become accustomed to our economic dominance in the world, forgetting that it wasn't reckless deals and get rich quick schemes that got us where we are, but hard work and smart ideas, quality products and wise investments.”

“I endeavor to drink deep of philosophy, and to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended, and patient where there is no redress. The mighty can do no more, and the wise seldom do as much. ... I am resolved to make the best of all circumstances around me, that this short life may not be half lost in pains ... Between the periods of birth and burial, I would fain insert a little happiness, a little pleasure, a little peace: to-day is ours, yesterday is past, and to-morrow may never come.”

“Safe from the Neighbors is a novel of unusual richness and depth, one that's as wise about the small shocks within a marriage as it is about the troubled history of Mississippi. Steve Yarbrough is a formidably talented novelist, shuttling between the past and present with a grace that feels effortless.”

Feels Past Novel Grace Wise Safe Depth Neighbor Novelists Shock Unusual Richness Mississippi Past And Present Effortless

Author:Tom Perrotta

“Who can think wise or stupid things at all that were not thought already in the past.”

Thinking Past Dies Wise Stupid Stupid Things

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“We strain to listen to the ghosts and echoes of our inexpressibly wise past, and we have an obligation to maintain these places, to provide these sanctuaries, so that people may be in the presence of forces larger than those of the moment.”

People May Moments Past Force Wise Ghost Obligation Echoes Strain Sanctuary

Author:Ken Burns