We live not in our moments or our years: The present we fling from us like the rind Of some sweet future, which we after find Bitter to taste..

There is hardly a mistake which in the course of our lives we have committed, but some proverb, had we known and attended to its lesson, might have s….

Oh seize the instant time; you never will With water once passed by impel the mill..

We kneel, how weak; we rise, how full of power! Why, therefore, should we do ourselves this wrong, Or others — that we are not always strong, That we….