Morrow Quotes - Page 6

• I endeavor to drink deep of philosophy, and to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended, and patient where there is no redress. The mighty can do no more, and the wise seldom do as much. ... I am resolved to make the best of all circumstances around me, that this short life may not be half lost in pains ... Between the periods of birth and burial, I would fain insert a little happiness, a little pleasure, a little peace: to-day is ours, yesterday is past, and to-morrow may never come.

  Elizabeth Montagu

  Wise, Wisdom, Pain

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• To-morrow to fresh woods, and pastures new.

  John Milton

  Change, Woods, Pastures

  "Lycidas" l. 192 (1638)

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• What subsists to-day by violence continues to-morrow by acquiescence and is perpetuated by tradition; till at last the hoary abuse shakes the gray hairs of antiquity at us, and gives it-self out as the wisdom of ages.

  Edward Everett

  Self, Hair, Giving

  Edward Everett (1831). “The prospect of reform in Europe [by E. Everett]. From the North Amer. review”, p.15

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• night after night I went to sleep murmuring, 'To-morrow I will be easy, strong, quick, supple, accurate, dashing and self-controlled all at once!' For not less than this is necessary in the Game of Life called Golf.

  Ethel Smyth

  Strong, Sleep, Golf

  Ethel Smyth (1940). “What happened next”, Longmans, Green

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• Children of yesterday, / Heirs of to-morrow, / What are you weaving? / Labor and sorrow? / Look to your looms again. / Faster and faster / Fly the great shuttles / Prepared by the Master, / Life's in the loom, / Room for it - / Room!

  Mary Lasswell

  Life, Hope, Children

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• I count my time by times that I meet thee;
  These are my yesterdays, my morrows, noons,
  And nights, these are my old moons and my new moons.
  Slow fly the hours, fast the hours flee,
  If thou art far from or art near to me:
  If thou art far, the bird's tunes are no tunes;
  If thou art near, the wintry days are Junes.

  Richard Watson Gilder

  Time, Art, Moon

  RICHARD WATSON GILDER (1885). “LYRICS AND OTHER POEMS,”

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• We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies. We make mental provisions for the days to come, and everything turns out differently, quite differently. Sufficient unto the day. The things that have to be done must be done, and for the rest we must not allow ourselves to become infested with thousands of petty fears and worries.

  Etty Hillesum

  Fighting, Worry, Done

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• It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
  [Lat., Posteraque in dubio est fortunam quam vehat aetas.]

  Lucretius

  Fortune, Doubtful

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• For Humanity sweeps onward: where today the martyr stands, On the morrow crouches Judas with the silver in his hands; Far in front the cross stands ready and the crackling fagots burn, While the hooting mob of yesterday in silent awe return To glean up the scattered ashes into History's golden urn.

  James Russell Lowell

  Yesterday, Hands, Humanity

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.190, Delphi Classics

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• Oh, the morrow of pain and dole Is naught while the sunlight lingers.

  Kenneth Rand

  Pain, Sunlight

  Kenneth Rand (1915). “The Dreamer, and Other Poems”

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• Who knows what beautiful and winged life, whose egg has been buried for ages under many concretic layers of woodenness in the dead dry life of society...may unexpectedly come forth...to enjoy its perfect summer life at last!...Such is the character of that morrow which mere lapse of time can never make to dawn...Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beautiful, Summer, Morning

  Walden ch. 18 (1854)

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• To-day belongs to me, To-morrow who can tell.

  Anacreon

  Today

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• How dreadful it is, to emerge from the oblivion of slumber, and to receive as a good morrow the mute wailing of one's own hapless heart - to return from the land of deceptive dreams to the heavy knowledge of unchanged disaster!

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Dream, Grief, Heart

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1833). “The Last Man”, p.180

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• We scornfully decline, because of one whom we love and who will some day be of so little account, to see another who is of no account to-day, with whom we shall be in love to-morrow, with whom we might, perhaps, had we consented to see her now, have fallen in love a little earlier and who would thus have put a term to our present sufferings, bringing others, it is true, in their place.

  Marcel Proust

  Suffering, Littles, Might

  Marcel Proust (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)”, p.949, Delphi Classics

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• You can't order remembrance out of the mind; and a wrong that was a wrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Order, Yesterday, Remembrance

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1868). “The Works: In Twenty-two Volumes. ¬The Virginians : a tale of the last century ; vol. I”, p.90

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• To-day is ours; what do we fear?
  To-day is ours; we have it here.
  Let's treat it kindly, that it may
  Wish, at least, with us to stay.
  Let's banish business, banish sorrow;
  To the gods belong to-morrow.

  Abraham Cowley

  Sorrow, Wish, May

  Abraham Cowley (1679). “The Works of Mr Abraham Cowley: Consisting of Those which Were Formerly Printed : and Those which He Design'd for the Press”

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• Oh! to be a child again. My only treasures, bits of shell and stone and glass. To love nothing but maple sugar. To fear nothing but a big dog. To go to sleep without dreading the morrow. To wake up with a shout. Not to have seen a dead face. Not to dread a living one. To be able to believe.

  Fanny Fern

  Dog, Children, Believe

  Fanny Fern (2015). “Ginger-Snaps”, p.110, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Abridge your hopes in proportion to the shortness of the span of human life; for while we converse, the hours, as if envious of our pleasure, fly away: enjoy, therefore, the present time, and trust not too much to what to-morrow may produce.

  Horace

  May, Too Much, Fly Away

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• Busy not yourself in looking forward to the events of to-morrow; but whatever may be those of the days Providence may yet assign you neglect not to turn them to advantage.

  Horace

  Events, May, Looking Forward

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• What is it to be rich? It is to have an assured income in excess of expenditures, and to have no occasion for anxiety for the morrow. It is to be above the necessity of living from hand to mouth. It is to be able (or to have grounds to insanely suppose one's self to be able) to live outside of God's providence.

  William Batchelder Greene

  Self, Hands, Anxiety

  William Batchelder Greene (1873). “A Letter to the Rev. Henry W. Foote, Minister of King's Chapel, in Vindication of the Poorer Class of the Boston Working-women”, p.6

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• Science of to-day-the superstition of to-morrow. Science of to-morrow-the superstition of to-day.

  Charles Fort

  Science, Superstitions, Tomorrow

  Charles Fort (2016). “The Book of the Damned: The Original Classic of Paranormal Exploration”, p.122, Penguin

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• Is there no hope? the sick man said, The silent doctor shook his head, And took his leave with signs of sorrow, Despairing of his fee to-morrow.

  John Gay

  Men, Doctors, Medicine

  Fables (Series 1), Fable 27

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• For truth and the spirit will abide with the morrow.

  Khalil Gibran

  Spirit

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• Never did we plan the morrow, for we had learned that in the wilderness some new and irresistible distraction is sure to turn up each day before breakfast. Like the river, we were free to wander.

  Aldo Leopold

  Rivers, Each Day, Breakfast

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.146, Oxford University Press, USA

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• There is but one way of refusing To-morrow, that is to die.

  Victor Hugo

  Way, One Way, Dies

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Saint Denis”, p.100

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