I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. Never is life so low or so little as when occupied read more

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. Never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.

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

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

When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind read more

When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

Trust no future, howe'er pleasant!
Let the dead past bury its dead!
Act,--act in the living Present!
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Trust no future, howe'er pleasant!
Let the dead past bury its dead!
Act,--act in the living Present!
Heart within and God o'erhead.

I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

Certain signs precede certain events.
[Lat., Certis rebus certa signa praecurrunt.]

Certain signs precede certain events.
[Lat., Certis rebus certa signa praecurrunt.]

A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.

A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.

Your day will come is another way of saying you get yours.

Your day will come is another way of saying you get yours.