It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the read more

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

There shall be no more snow
No weary noontide heat,
So we lift our trusting eyes
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There shall be no more snow
No weary noontide heat,
So we lift our trusting eyes
From the hills our Fathers trod:
To the quiet of the skies:
To the Sabbath of our God.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.rn

Study the past, if you would divine the future.rn

With mortal crisis doth portend,
My days to appropinque an end.

With mortal crisis doth portend,
My days to appropinque an end.

A fixed image of the future is in the worst sense a historical.

A fixed image of the future is in the worst sense a historical.

Making all future fruits of all the pasts.

Making all future fruits of all the pasts.

You can never plan the future by the past.

You can never plan the future by the past.

You'll see that, since our fate is ruled by chance,
Each man, unknowing, great,
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You'll see that, since our fate is ruled by chance,
Each man, unknowing, great,
Should frame life so that at some future hour
Fact and his dreamings meet.

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future one.

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future one.