Quotes and Sayings About Past
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
-- Abraham Cowley -
Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
-- Abraham Cowley -
Michael Jackson has an anti-Semitic streak, and hasn't learned from his past mistakes. It seems every time he has a problem in his life, he blames it on Jews.
-- Abraham Foxman -
When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past; when faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
There are no accidents in my philosophy. Every effect must have its cause. The past is the cause of the present, and the present will be the cause of the future. All these are links in the endless chain stretching from the finite to the infinite.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise to the occasion. We cannot escape history. We will be remembered in spite of ourselves. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honour or dishonour, to the last generation. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, our last best hope of Earth.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
But let the past as nothing be. For the future my view is that the fight must go on.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Thus let bygones be bygones. Let past differences, as nothing be.
-- Abraham Lincoln