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I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.
Walt Whitman

Art, Democracy, Until

For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.
Lord Byron

Greatest, Nothing, Leave

My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.
Hugh Leonard

We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.
Marianne Williamson

Love, Present, Receive

Keep all special thoughts and memories for lifetimes to come. Share these keepsakes with others to inspire hope and build from the past, which can bridge to the future.
Mattie Stepanek

Hope, Future, Thoughts

Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold.
Chuck Palahniuk

Sometimes, Big, Present

In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.
Alex Haley

Family, Future, Bridge

Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Future, Hard, Philosophy

Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.
Charles Kingsley

Age, Long, Wrong

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
Samuel Butler

God, Cannot, Though

How quickly we forget God's great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past.
David Wilkerson

Great, God, Forget

What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.
Virginia Satir

Parenting, Her, Often

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Future, Fear, Weep

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
Fidel Castro

Death, Future, Struggle

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.
George Eliot

Future, Desire, Break

Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
George Eliot

History, Moving, Strange

I firmly believe that you live and learn, and if you don't learn from past mistakes, then you need to be drug out and shot.
R. Lee Ermey

Live, Mistakes, Learn

The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.
Charles Dickens

Age, Chivalry, Dragons

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.
Oliver Goldsmith

Great, Future, Alone

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.
George Burns

Age, Live, Made

We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.
E. M. Forster

Freedom, Enough, Cannot

I don't live in the past at all; I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.
Brian Eno

Live, Mind, Forget

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
Euripides

Future, Learning, Dead

Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.
Harry S. Truman

Problems, Face, President

The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.
Tallulah Bankhead

Life, Live, Mistakes

The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
Wendell Berry

A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it.
Doug Coupland

Good, Smile, Forget

Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.
Sophocles

Future, Lost, Young

Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Time, True, Law

You know when you're young you think you will always be. As you become more fragile, you reflect and you realize how much comfort can come from the past. Hymns can carry you into the future.
Andy Griffith

Future, Young, Become

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