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Making all future fruits of all the pasts.
Author: Edwin Arnold
Source: Light of Asia (bk. V, l. 432)
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That what will come, and must come, shall come well.
Author: Edwin Arnold
Source: Light of Asia (bk. V, l. 432)
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The year goes wrong, and tares grow strong,
Hope starves without a crumb;
But God's time is our harvest time,
And that is sure to come.
Author: Lewis J. Bates
Source: Our Better Day
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Some day Love shall claim his own
Some day Right ascend his throne,
Some day hidden Truth be known;
Some day--some sweet day.
Author: Lewis J. Bates
Source: Some Sweet Day
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The future ain't what it used to be.
Author: Lewis J. Bates
Source: Some Sweet Day
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Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall
take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day
is the evil thereof.
Author: Bible
Source: Matthew (ch. VI, v. 34)
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Dear Land to which Desire forever flees;
Time doth no present to our grasp allow,
Say in the fixed Eternal shall we seize
At last the fleeting Now?
Author: Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton
Source: Corn Flowers (bk. I, The First Violets)
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You can never plan the future by the past.
Author: Edmund Burke
Source: Letter to a Member of the National Assembly (vol. IV, p. 55)
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With mortal crisis doth portend,
My days to appropinque an end.
Author: Samuel Butler (1)
Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto III, l. 589)
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'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore,
And coming events cast their shadows before.
Author: Thomas Campbell
Source: Lochiel's Warning
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Certain signs precede certain events.
[Lat., Certis rebus certa signa praecurrunt.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: De Divinatione (I, 52)
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. . . So often do the spirits
Of great events stride on before the events,
And in to-day already walks to-morrow.
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Source: Death of Wallenstein (act V, sc. 1)
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I never think of the future--it comes soon enough.
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Source: Death of Wallenstein (act V, sc. 1)
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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters
compared to what lies within us.
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Source: Death of Wallenstein (act V, sc. 1)
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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.
Author: Mrs. Felicia D. Hemans
Source: Evening Song of the Tyrolese Peasants
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And better skilled in dark events to come.
Author: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")
Source: The Odyssey (bk. V, 219), (Pope's translation)
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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.]
Author: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Source: Carmina (I, 9, 13)
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A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness.
[Lat., Prudens futuri temporis exitum
Caliginosa nocte premit deus.]
Author: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Source: Carmina (III, 29, 29)
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You'll see that, since our fate is ruled by chance,
Each man, unknowing, great,
Should frame life so that at some future hour
Fact and his dreamings meet.
Author: Victor Hugo
Source: To His Orphan Grandchildren
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With whom there is no place of toil, no burning heat, no piercing
cold, nor any briars there . . . this place we call the Bosom of
Abraham.
Author: Flavius Josephus
Source: Discourse to the Greeks concerning Hades
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There was the Door to which I found no key;
There was the Veil through which I might not see.
Author: Omar Khayyam ("The Tent-Maker")
Source: The Rubaiyat (st. 32 (later ed.)), (FitzGerald's translation)
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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.
Author: Rudyard Kipling
Source: When Earth's Last Picture Is Painted
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The present is big with the future.
[Fr., Le present est gros de l'avenir.]
Author: Rudyard Kipling
Source: When Earth's Last Picture Is Painted
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Look not mournfully into the Past; it comes not back again.
Wisely improve the Present; it is thine.
Go forth to meet the shadowy Future without fear and with a manly
heart.
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Source: Hyperion
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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.
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Source: A Psalm of Life
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The future is like heaven. Everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.
Author: James Baldwin
Source: None
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I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.
Author: J. G. Ballard
Source: None
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Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.
Author: Corrie Ten Boom
Source: None
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I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
Author: Ray Bradbury
Source: None
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The future is as bright as the promises of God.
Author: William Carey
Source: None
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By the street of by-and-by, one arrives at the house of never.
Author: Miguel de Cervantes
Source: None
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Your day will come is another way of saying you get yours.
Author: Merelene Cornish
Source: None
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Predicting the future is easy. It's trying to figure out what's going on now that's hard.
Author: Fritz R. S. Dressler
Source: None
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Create your future from your future not your past.
Author: Werner Erhard
Source: None
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The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it.
Author: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Source: None
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That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
Author: Anatole France
Source: None
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I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
Author: Albert Einstein
Source: None
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The future is much like the present, only longer.
Author: Don Quisenberry
Source: None
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The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.
Author: John Sladek
Source: None
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The future will be better tomorrow
Author: Vice President Dan Quayle
Source: None
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We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.
Author: Gunther Grass
Source: None
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The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.
Author: Franz Grillparzer
Source: None
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My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
Author: Charles F. Kettering
Source: None
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The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Author: Malcolm X
Source: None
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Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. Never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.
Author: Walter Savage Landor
Source: None
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The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
Source: None
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A fixed image of the future is in the worst sense a historical.
Author: Juliet Mitchell
Source: None
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The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
Author: Mary Pickford
Source: None
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future one.
Author: Seneca
Source: None
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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 and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
Author: Hugh White
Source: None
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