“Enjoy'd no sooner but despised straight, Past reason hunted, and no sooner had Past reason hated”
“No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy; and in these degrees have they made a pair of stairs to marriage...”
“... sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.”
“Sooner or later we've all got to let go of our past.”
“There is a reason why past is past.”
“have I not the reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.”