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Making all future fruits of all the pasts.
Making all future fruits of all the pasts.
Predicting the future is easy. It's trying to figure out what's going on now that's hard.
Predicting the future is easy. It's trying to figure out what's going on now that's hard.
Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and to take as a
gift whatever the day brings read more
Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and to take as a
gift whatever the day brings forth.
[Lat., Quid sit futurum cras, fuge quaerere: et
Quem Fors dierum cunque dabit, lucro
Appone.]
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.
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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.
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.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
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.
