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The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present
I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following
Man must have some fears, hopes, and cares, for the coming morrow
Why will any man be so impertinently officious as to tell me all prospect of a future state is only fancy and delusion? Is there any merit in being the messenger of ill news. If it is a dream, let me enjoy it, since it makes me both the happier and better man
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough
Can any one find in what condition his body will be, I do not say a year hence, but this evening?
They who look but little into futurity, have, perhaps, the quickest sensation of the present
The future is purchased by the present
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