Thomas Carlyle Quotes About Past
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At the bottom there is no perfect history; there is none such conceivable. All past centuries have rotted down, and gone confusedly dumb and quiet.
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The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.
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Without oblivion, there is no remembrance possible. When both oblivion and memory are wise, when the general soul of man is clear, melodious, true, there may come a modern Iliad as memorial of the Past.
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The whole past is the procession of the present.
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Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History.
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The leafy blossoming present time springs from the whole past, remembered and unrememberable.
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In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.
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The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.
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The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.
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Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
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In books lies the soul fo the whole past time.
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Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether past calculation its powers of endurance.
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