The present is an eternal now.
s a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th' approaches of the last.
Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.