PRESENT

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1. Every age
   Appears to souls who live in 't (ask Carlyle)
   Most unheroic.—ELIZABETH B. BROWNING, Aurora Leigh
   

2. Try to be happy in this very present moment; and put not off being so to a time to come; as though that time should be of another make from this, which is already come, and is ours.—THOMAS FULLER
   

3. Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing.—GOETHE
   

4. The future is purchased by the present.—SAMUEL JOHNSON
   

5. Let us enjoy the fugitive hour. Man has no harbor, time has no shore, it rushes on and carries us with it.—LAMARTINE
   

6. One realm we have never conquered—the pure present. One great mystery of time is terra incognita to us—the instant. The most superb mystery we have hardly recognized—the immediate, instant self. The quick of all the universe, of all creation, is the incarnate, carnal self.—D. H. LAWRENCE, New Poems
   

7. Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant!
   Let the dead Past bury its dead!
   Act,—act in the living present!
   Heart within, and God o'erhead!—LONGFELLOW, A Psalm of Life
   

8. Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.—MARCUS AURELIUS, Meditations
   

9. Let ancient times delight other folk; I rejoice that I was not born till now ; this age suits my nature.—OVID, Art of Love
   

10. Past and to come seem best; things present worst.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry IV
    

11. All the modern inconveniences.—MARK TWAIN, Life on the Mississippi
    

12. The Present, the Present is all thou hast
    For thy sure possessing;
    Like the patriarch's angel hold it fast
    Till it gives its blessing.—WHITTIER, My Soul and I