The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully


Epicurus

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The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully.
EPICURUS
The greatest hindrance to living is expectancy, which depends upon the morrow and wastes to-day.
SENECA
To-night, at least, to-night be gay, Whate'er to-morrow brings.
MICHAEL EYQUEN DE MONTAIGNE
This day was yesterday to-morrow nam'd: To-morrow shall be yesterday proclaimed: To-morrow not...
JOHN OWEN ("BRITISH MARTIAL")
A sadder and a wiser man, He rose the morrow morn.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
A sadder and a wiser man, He rose the morrow morn.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the las...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
To-morrow? - Why, To-morrow I may be / Myself with Yesterday's Sev'n Thousand Years.
EDWARD FITZGERALD
To-morrow you will live, you always cry; In what fair country does this morrow lie, That 'tis ...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL
Our yesterday's to-morrow now is gone, And still a new to-morrow does come on. We by to-morrow...
MME. A.M. BIGOT DE CORNUEL
Fly the pleasure that bites to morrow.
GEORGE HERBERT
Keep Moving Forward
MEET THE ROBINSONS
To-morrow the dreams and flowers will fade.
THOMAS MOORE
Let to-morrow take care of to-morrow, Leave things of the future to fate; What's the use to an...
LAURENCE STERNE
Take therefore no thought for the morrow; for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself...
BIBLE
Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itse...
BIBLE
To-morrow is, ah, whose?
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)
When God says To-day, the devil says To-morrow.
GERMAN PROVERB
Some say "to-morrow" never comes, A saying oft thought right; But if to-morrow never came, ...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR
Love is a growing, or full constant light,
And his first minute, after noon, is night.
JOHN DONNE
Dreaming of a to-morrow, which to-morrow Will be as distant then as 'tis to-day. - Lope Feli...
LOPE FELIX DE VEGA CARPIO ("TOME BURGUILLOS")
Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
We must ignore the morrow and live for today.
PHILIP T. M.
To-morrow let us do or die.
THOMAS CAMPBELL
The goal of yesterday will be our starting-point to-morrow.
HENRY CAREY
Seek not to inquire what the morrow will bring with it.
UNKNOWN
How oft my guardian angel gently cried, "Soul, from thy casement look, and thou shalt see How ...
LOPE FELIX DE VEGA CARPIO ("TOME BURGUILLOS")
To-morrow, didst thou say? Methought I heard Horatio say, To-morrow! Go to--I will not hear it...
NATHANIEL COTTON
The way to misuse our possessions is to use them as an insurance against the morrow. Anxiety is alwa...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
RADICALISM, n. The conservatism of to-morrow injected into the affairs of to-day.
AMBROSE BIERCE
Hide in the morrow. No one will look for you there.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA
There is a budding morrow in midnight.
JOHN KEATS
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
When a friend askes, there is no to morrow.
GEORGE HERBERT
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the la...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
An egg today is better than a hen to-morrow.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Have you somewhat to do to-morrow; do it to-day.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
An Egg to day is better than a Hen to-morrow
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
The mind flies back with a grand recoil From debts not due till to-morrow.
AARON HILL
Beware of desperate steps. The darkest day, Live till to-morrow, will have pass'd away.
WILLIAM COWPER
He went like one that hath been stunn'd, And is of sense forlorn: A sadder and a wiser man, ...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
To-morrow never yet On any human being rose or set.
WILLIAM MARSDEN
"Is there no hope?" the sick man said, The silent doctor shook his head, And took his leave wi...
JOHN GAY
Is there no hope? the sick man said, The silent doctor shook his head, And took his leave with signs...
VICTOR HUGO
Catch the opportunity while it lasts, and rely not on what the morrow may bring.
UNKNOWN
Never leave that till to-morrow which you can do to-day.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
We must ignore the morrow and live for today, because tomorrow might never come.
PHILIP T. M.
Yesterday is but to-day’s memory and to-morrow is to-day’s dream.
KAHLIL GIBRAN
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
[Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.]
HORACE
Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS...
To-morrow is Saint Valentine's day, All in the morning betime, And I a maid at your window, To be yo...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that ap...
BIBLE
Let your mind, happily contented with the present, care not what the morrow will bring with it.
UNKNOWN
He who is not in readiness to-day, will be less prepared to-morrow.
MRS. MANLEY
Often do the spirits Of great events stride on before the events, And in to-day already walks ...
LORD EDWARD COKE
To-morrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven
PERSIUS
To morrow, I believe, is to be an eclipse of the sun, and I think it perfectly meet and proper that ...
BENJAMIN F. WADE
Before this time to-morrow I shall have gained a peerage, or Westminister Abbey.
LORD HORATIO NELSON
On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before. Then the bird said "Nevermore.
EDGAR ALLAN POE
. . . So often do the spirits Of great events stride on before the events, And in to-day alrea...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth. And set down as gain each day that Fortune grants.
HORACE
Such as she is, who died to-day, Such thou alas! mayst be to-morrow.
ALEXANDER POPE
Rest. Heal. Sleep. I shall most likely kill you on the morrow.”

“You? A Princess Brid...
JIM BUTCHER
Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
A Bluesman hates to be told what to do. Authority rankles him, inspires his rebellion, and plays to ...
CHRISTOPHER MOORE
Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, To-morrow's sun to thee may never rise.
GEORGE COLMAN "THE YOUNGER"
Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, To-morrow's sun to thee may never rise
WILLIAM CONGREVE
To-morrow will give some food for thought. [Lat., Aliquod crastinus dies ad cogitandum dabit.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO)
Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. . . . Speak what you think to-day in words...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our...
ETTY HILLESUM
My advice is, never do to-morrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time. Collar...
CHARLES DICKENS
When will you be pleased to dine, Mr. Holmes?' Mrs. Hudson asked. 'Seven-thirty, the day after to-mo...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life! The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, And t...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON)
And when they arose early on the morrow morning, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the groun...
BIBLE
Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
BIBLE
Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
BIBLE
Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, To-morrow's Sun to thee may never rise; Or should to-morr...
WILLIAM CONGREVE
Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say goodnight till it be morrow.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The Christian West considers man to be wholly dependent upon the grace of God, or at least upon the ...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG
Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He, who can call to-day his own:
He who, secure within, c...
JOHN DRYDEN
For the listener, who listens in the snow, / And, nothing himself, beholds /
Nothing that is no...
WALLACE STEVENS
Many times, the right man gets outnumbered by false and wrong people while the other true and honest...
APURVA GAGLANI
The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something af...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
And on the morrow, when Agrippa was come, and Bernice, with great pomp, and was entered into the pla...
BIBLE
Then called he them in, and lodged them. And on the morrow Peter went away with them, and certain br...
BIBLE
Suppose that we, to-morrow or the next day, / Came to an end - in storm the shafting broken, / Or a ...
C. DAY LEWIS
People with targets and jobs dependent upon meeting them will probably meet the targets - even if th...
W. EDWARDS DEMING
Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found. -Anne Morro...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH
Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work!
DEYTH BANGER
To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world...
GARY F EVANS...
The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist.
APURVA GAGLANI
If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ...
GARY F EVANS...
i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g...
SIMI GREWAL
I love you 2 day, I love you 2 morrow, I love you 4 ever.
UNKNOWN
To-morrow is our wedding-day, / And we will then repair / Unto the Bell at Edmonton, / All in a chai...
WILLIAM COWPER
Let the morrow bring on what it would, he thought, for it didn't exist. Only now could lay any claim...
TIM WILLOCKS
Far off I hear the crowing of the cocks, And through the opening door that time unlocks Feel t...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

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