God be thanked for books! they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
– W.E. Channing
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- There is no past, as long as books shall live. Books make the past our heritage and our home. – Anonymous
- When I think of ages past That have floated down the stream Of life and love and death, I feel how free it makes us To pass away. – Rabindranath Tagore
- What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. – Sigmund Freud
- The past is never dead,it is not even past. – William Faulkner
- Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it. – William Ellery Channing
- The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action. – Felix Adler
- 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
- Starting over is an acceptance of a past we can’t change, an unrelenting conviction that the future can be different, and the stubborn wisdom to use the past to make the future what the past was not. – Craig D. Lounsbrough
- Apart from two periods of intense study, of music between the ages of 12 and 14 and of mathematics between the ages of 14 and 16, I coasted, daydreaming, through most of my school years. – James W. Black
- Between friends, frequent reproofs make the friendship distant. – Confucius