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Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.
Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.
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.
When Earth's last picture is painted, and the tubes are twisted
and dried,
When the oldest colours have read more
When Earth's last picture is painted, and the tubes are twisted
and dried,
When the oldest colours have faded, and the youngest critic has
died,
We shall rest, and faith, we shall need it--lie down for an aeon
or two,
Till the Master of All Good Workmen shall set us to work anew.
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 is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water.
There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water.
Look not mournfully into the Past; it comes not back again.
Wisely improve the Present; it is thine.
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Look not mournfully into the Past; it comes not back again.
Wisely improve the Present; it is thine.
Go forth to meet the shadowy Future without fear and with a manly
heart.
That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.
The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.
There was the Door to which I found no key;
There was the Veil through which I might not read more
There was the Door to which I found no key;
There was the Veil through which I might not see.