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John Bartlett (1820–1905).  Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.  1919.
 
 
NUMBER:2986
AUTHOR:John Dryden (1631–1700)
QUOTATION:Not heaven itself upon the past has power;
But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
ATTRIBUTION:Imitation of Horace. Book iii. Ode 29, Line 71.
 

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