Past Quotes

Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure. (Jane Austen, 1775-1817)

Oh! Leave the past to bury its own dead. (William S. Blunt, 1840-1922)

I have small patience with the antiquarian habit which magnifies the past and belittles the present … Change is inevitable, at once a penalty and a privilege. (John Buchan, 1875-1940)

Historic continuity with the past is not a duty, it is only a necessity. (Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1841-1935)

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. (George Santayana, 1863-1952)

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