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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
The future influences the present just as much as the past
The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are
The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable
The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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