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The Past is such a curious Creature To look her in the Face A Transport may receipt us Or a Disgrace-.
The Things that never can come back, are several- Childhood-some forms of Hope-the Dead- Though Joys-like Men-may sometimes make a Journey- And still abide-.
We make a mistake to condescend to the past as if it were preparatory to our own time.
We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
We are not free to use today, or to promise tomorrow, because we are already mortgaged to yesterday.
It was like the good gone times when we still believed in summer hotels and the philosophies of popular songs.
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.
If only the sense of actuality can be lulled-and it sleeps for ever in most historians-there is no passion that cannot be gratified in the past.
To what a degree the same past can leave different marks-and especially admit of different interpretations.
The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.
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