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What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.
Henry Ward Beecher

Best, Wisdom, Young

Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.
Gerald Jampolsky

Peace, Means, Practice

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
Soren Kierkegaard

Men, Pleasure, Haste

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.
Virginia Woolf

Heart, Book, Him

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
Alan Watts

Future, Real, Present

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
Rene Descartes

Good, Minds, Reading

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others.
Charles Darwin

Others, Moral, Actions

What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
Victor Hugo

History, Future, Echo

We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
Victor Hugo

Time, Present, Telescope

The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.
Mick Jagger

Great, Regret, Place

I haven't been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.
Billy Graham

Future, Advice, Faithful

When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Future, Darkness, Spirit

For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.
Hubert H. Humphrey

Time, Power, History

In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.
Ken Blanchard

Power, Today, Leader

In books lies the soul of the whole past time.
Thomas Carlyle

Time, Soul, Whole

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
Thomas Carlyle

Truth, Nothing, Die

We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.
George Santayana

Respect, Future, Once

You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
Denis Waitley

Mistakes, Learn, Successes

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.
Blaise Pascal

Future, Thoughts, Find

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
Frederick Douglass

Future, Present, Useful

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Find, Again, Memory

And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
James Madison

Religion, Government, Doubt

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Age, Great, Long

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.
Barbara de Angelis

Anger, Heart, Less

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Sweet, Memory, Troubles

Islam expect every Muslim to do this duty, and if we realise our responsibility time will come soon when we shall justify ourselves worthy of a glorious past.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Time, Islam, Ourselves

The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Free, Prove, Worthy

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.
Blaise Pascal

Future, Others, Action

The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.
Annie Lennox

Best, Future, Try

I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.
Clara Barton

Faith, Done, Might

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