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The MILL cannot grind with the water that is past
1616Adages
151
The water that is past, cannot make the mill goe.
1640
Outlandish Proverbs
no. 153
The mill cannot grind with the water that's past.
1856
Poems
197
Oh seize the instant [present] time; you never will With waters once passed by impel the mill.
1980
Red Kill
xiv.
It did no good to think back. The mill cannot grind with the water that is past, as the old people in the mountains used to say.
opportunity, missed;
past
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