“He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator”
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“He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator”
“I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do”
“The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.”
“You can never plan the future by the past”
“What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace”
“Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made”
“The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century”
“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.”
“Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world”
“Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn”
“The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come”
“Remember tonight.. for it is the beginning of always.”
“Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders”
“The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today”
“I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward”
“One faces the future with one's past”
“The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation”
“You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls”
“Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.”
“The majority of men devote the greater part of their lives to making their remaining years unhappy.”