night after night I
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
Morrow
We have to fight
We have to fight them daily, lake fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies. Etty Hillesum
We have to fight
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 … Read more
So erst the Sage
So erst the Sage [Pythagoras] with scientific truth In Grecian temples taught the attentive youth; With ceaseless change how restless atoms pass From life to life, a transmigrating mass; How the same organs, which to-day compose The poisonous henbane, or the fragrant rose, May with to-morrow’s sun new forms compile, Frown in the Hero, in … Read more
The man least dependent
The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully. Epicurus
To-day is the parent
To-day is the parent of to-morrow. The present casts its shadow far into the future. Emma Goldman
Let no one pray
Let no one pray that they know not sorrow, Let no soul ask to be free from pain, For the gall of to-day is the sweet of to-morrow, And the moment’s loss is the lifetime’s gain. Through want of a thing does its worth redouble, Through hunger’s pangs does the feast content, And only the … Read more
Let no man pray
Let no man pray that he know not sorrow, Let no soul ask to be free from pain, For the gall of to-day is the sweet of to-morrow, And the moment’s loss is the lifetime’s gain. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
I endeavor to drink
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 … Read more
Were all men equal
Were all men equal to-night, some would get the start by rising an hour earlier to-morrow. Elizabeth Gaskell