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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.
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.
There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the read more
There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.
Telling the future by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain constant. This is like driving a car by read more
Telling the future by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain constant. This is like driving a car by looking in the rearview mirror.
We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to live the rest of our lives there.
We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to live the rest of our lives there.
For tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today
For tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today
Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind read more
Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption.
I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military read more
I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.
A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness.
[Lat., Prudens futuri temporis exitum
Caliginosa nocte premit read more
A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness.
[Lat., Prudens futuri temporis exitum
Caliginosa nocte premit deus.]