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Some say "to-morrow" never comes,
A saying oft thought right;
But if to-morrow never came,
No end were of "to-night."
The fact is this, time flies so fast,
That e'er we've time to say
"To-morrow's come," presto! behold!
"To-morrow" proves "To-day."
Author: Unattributed Author
Source: from "Notes and Queries", fourth series, vol. XII
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How oft my guardian angel gently cried,
"Soul, from thy casement look, and thou shalt see
How he persists to knock and wait for thee!"
And, O! how often to that voice of sorrow,
"To-morrow we will open," I replied,
And when the morrow came I answered still, "To-morrow."
Author: Lope Felix de Vega Carpio ("Tome Burguillos")
Source: To-morrow (l. 9), (Longfellow's translation)
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Dreaming of a to-morrow, which to-morrow
Will be as distant then as 'tis to-day.
- Lope Felix de Vega Carpio ("Tome Burguillos"),
Author: Lope Felix de Vega Carpio ("Tome Burguillos")
Source: To-morrow, and To-morrow, (John Bowring's translation)
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Never do but one thing at a time, and never put off till
to-morrow what you can do today.
Author: Lope Felix de Vega Carpio ("Tome Burguillos")
Source: To-morrow, and To-morrow, (John Bowring's translation)
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To-morrow will give some food for thought.
[Lat., Aliquod crastinus dies ad cogitandum dabit.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: Epistoloe Ad Atticum (XV, 8)
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A shining isle in a stormy sea,
We seek it ever with smiles and sighs;
To-day is sad. In the bland To-be,
Serene and lovely To-morrow lies.
Author: Mary Clemmer (Mary Clemmer Ames)
Source: To-morrow
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In the downhill of life, when I find I'm declining,
May my lot no less fortunate be
Than a snug elbow-chair can afford for reclining,
And a cot that o'erlooks the wide sea;
With an ambling pad-pony to pace o'er the lawn,
While I carol away idle sorrow,
And blithe as the lark that each day hails the dawn,
Look forward with hope for to-morrow.
Author: John Churton Collins
Source: To-morrow, found in the "Golden Treasury of Best Songs and Lyrical Poems"
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Defer not till to-morrow to be wise,
To-morrow's Sun to thee may never rise;
Or should to-morrow chance to cheer thy sight
With her enlivening and unlook'd for light,
How grateful will appear her dawning rays!
As favours unexpected doubly please.
Author: William Congreve
Source: Letter to Cobham (l. 61)
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To-morrow, didst thou say?
Methought I heard Horatio say, To-morrow!
Go to--I will not hear it. To-morrow!
'Tis a sharper--who stakes his penury
Against thy plenty--takes thy ready cash,
And pays thee naught but wishes, hopes, and promises,
The currency of idiots--injurious bankrupt,
That gulls the easy creditor!
Author: Nathaniel Cotton
Source: To-morrow
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Trust on and think To-morrow will repay;
To-morrow's falser than the former day;
Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest
With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.
Author: John Dryden
Source: Aureng-zebe (act IV, sc. 1)
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Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He, who can call to-day his own:
He who, secure within, can say,
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have liv'd today.
Author: John Dryden
Source: Imitation of Horace (bk. III, ode XXIX, l. 65)
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Never leave that till to-morrow which you can do to-day.
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Source: Poor Richard's Almanac
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One today is worth two tomorrows.
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Source: Poor Richard's Almanac
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Oh! to be wafted away
From this black Aceldama of sorrow,
Where the dust of an earthy to-day
Makes the earth of a dusty to-morrow.
Author: William S. Gilbert
Source: Heart-Foam
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Leuconoe, close the book of fate,
For troubles are in store,
. . . .
Live today, tomorrow is not.
Author: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Source: Carmina (I, XI)
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There is a budding morrow in midnight.
Author: John Keats
Source: Sonnet--Standing alone in giant Ignorance
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Far off I hear the crowing of the cocks,
And through the opening door that time unlocks
Feel the fresh breathing of To-morrow creep.
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Source: To-morrow
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To-morrow! the mysterious, unknown guest,
Who cries to me: "Remember Barmecide,
And tremble to be happy with the rest."
And I make answer: "I am satisfied;
I dare not ask; I know not what is best;
God hath already said what shall betide."
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Source: To-Morrow
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There's a fount about to stream,
There's a light about to beam,
There's a warmth about to glow,
There's a flower about to blow;
There's a midnight blackness changing
Into gray;
Men of thought and men of action,
Clear the way.
Author: Charles Mackay
Source: Clear the Way, in "Voices from the Crowd"
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To-morrow never yet
On any human being rose or set.
Author: William Marsden
Source: What is Time?
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To-morrow you will live, you always cry;
In what fair country does this morrow lie,
That 'tis so mighty long ere it arrive?
Beyond the Indies does this morrow live?
'Tis so far-fetched, this morrow, that I fear
'Twill be both very old and very dear.
"To-morrow I will live," the fool does say:
To-day itself's too late;--the wise lived yesterday.
Author: Marcus Valerius Martial
Source: Epigrams (bk. V, ep. LVIII)
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After all, tomorrow is another day.
Author: Margaret Mitchell
Source: Gone with the Wind (closing words)
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To-morrow the dreams and flowers will fade.
Author: Thomas Moore
Source: Lalla Rookh--The Light of the Harem--Song
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To-morrow is, ah, whose?
Author: Dinah Maria Mulock (used pseudonym Mrs. Craik)
Source: Between Two Worlds
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This day was yesterday to-morrow nam'd:
To-morrow shall be yesterday proclaimed:
To-morrow not yet come, not far away,
What shall to-morrow then be call'd? To-day.
Author: John Owen ("British Martial")
Source: To-Day and To-Morrow (bk. III, l. 50)
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The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Author: Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Source: None
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Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today.
Author: John Dryden
Source: None
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Light tomorrow with today.
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Source: None
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Live each day the fullest you can, not guaranteeing there'll be a tomorrow, not dwelling endlessly on yesterday.
Author: Jane Seymour
Source: None
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You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.
Author: Harrold Hill
Source: None
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Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
Author: Evan Esar
Source: None
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Of course, it's very easy to be witty tomorrow, after you get a chance to do some research and rehearse your ad libs.
Author: Joey Adams
Source: None
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Too late is tomorrow's life; live for today.
Author: Martial
Source: None
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Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
Author: Dale Carnegie
Source: None
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
Author: H. G. Wells
Source: None
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