We can't look for greatness in the past.
I continue to have a special pride and passion for AOL, and I strongly believe that AOL - once the leading Internet company in the world - can return to its past greatness.
The heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old!-- The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns.
The Past -- the dark unfathomed retrospect! The teeming gulf --the sleepers and the shadows! The past! the infinite greatness of the past! For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past?
If all greatness lies in the past, what is the point of the future?
The age which we live in is not suited to idle complacency or to pleasant dreams of past greatness.
I know the greatness of Christianity; it is a past greatness.. I live in 1924, and the Christian venture is done.
The best artists are gone now.
A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory
The past was great no doubt, but I sincerely believe that the future will be more glorious still.
