"O, she misused me past the endurance of a block."
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"Past and to come, seems best; things present, worse."
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"Things past redress are now with me past care"
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"Past all shame, so past all truth."
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"When remedies are past, the griefs are ended By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended."
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"For you and I are past our dancing days."
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"Books are the best type of the influence of the past."
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"If the present tries to sit in judgment of the past, it will lose the future."
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"For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself."
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"Every time you make a movie it's a new and different experience. You learn very little from the past. So, I'm a little bit better than I was when I first started."
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"Czech Republic is an important part of central Europe. It's clear that we must participate in European integration. I am convinced that the Czech Republic - or, in the past, Czechoslovakia - would have been one of the founding members of the EU if it hadn't been for the communist takeover in 1948."
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"Here between the hither and the farther shore While time is withdrawn, consider the future And the past with an equal mind."
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"How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were always present and never moved on to become the past, it would not be time, but eternity."
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"I’m past photographing to see what things look like photographed."
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"There is no end to the deceits of the past."
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"The eyes of mankind will be upon you to see whether the Government, which is now more popular than it has been for many years past, will be productive of more virtue moral and political. We may look up to Armies for our Defense, but Virtue is our best Security. It is not possible that any State should long remain free, where Virtue is not supremely honored."
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"We do what we must, and call it by the best names."
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"The Times are the masquerade of the eternities; trivial to the dull, tokens of noble and majestic agents to the wise; the receptacle in which the Past leaves its history; the quarry out of which the genius of today is building up the Future."
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"We cannot overstate our debt to the Past, but the moment has the supreme claim."
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"Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past? The sun shines today also."
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