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I who know many present things by my art," replied the Hermit with a smile, "have yet little knowledge of things future. Therefore I do not know wheth...more

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Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

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The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time--for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the...more

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Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future.

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Of the things that followed I cannot at all say whether they were what men call real or what men call dream. And for all I can tell, the only differen...more

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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

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The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

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Aim at heaven and you get earth thrown in aim at earth and you get neither.

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The future is something which every one reaches at the rate of sixty miles an hour whatever he does whoever he is.

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The nearest thing we have to a defence against [the gods] (but there is no real defence) is to be very wide awake and sober and hard at work, to hear ...more

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We have trained them to think of the Future as a promised land which favored heroes attain-not as something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixt...more

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You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.