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And joined in the shout that rose off the table. I can sketch her in for you rather simply because of the hackneyed lines of her very, very old story. Whose pasts so quickly mold and disintegrate as those of women of Hester's stripe? Their yesterdays are entirely soluble in the easy waters of their to-days.
It was to-day, with the same disappointment, the same pains, the same racking cough, which he had endured on so many other to-days that had come and gone before it.
Jeremy Taylor. "For the structure that we raise, Time is with materials filled; Our to-days and yesterdays Are the blocks with which we build." Longfellow. Thrift began with civilization. It began when men found it necessary to provide for to-morrow, as well as for to-day. It began long before money was invented. Thrift means private economy.
All our to-days are spoiled by reminiscences about yesterday and sorrows about tomorrow. Thus we are disindividualising and emptying all our "to-days" and degrading them to a misty meeting-place of yesterday and tomorrow. From the physical point of view the greatest thing in this life is its mystery.
And holding my nose, I went morosely through all yesterdays and to-days: verily, badly smell all yesterdays and to-days of the scribbling rabble! Like a cripple become deaf, and blind, and dumb thus have I lived long; that I might not live with the power-rabble, the scribe-rabble, and the pleasure-rabble.
He thought, with a most passionate longing for her, that he would have given anything to have been able to turn to her when he had exclaimed, "My God, war", and to have caught her hands and looked into her beautiful face. To-morrow he would send the letter. To-morrow? Why, yes, to-day, like all to-days in the removed and placid light of all to-morrows, would be shown needlessly hectic.
We are always losing the happiness of our to-days; and our to-morrows never come." I sighed my response, and sat for a long time silent. When the tea bell interrupted me from my reverie, Arty lay fast asleep on my bosom. As I kissed him on his way to his mother's arms, I said, "Dear baby! may it be your first and last pursuit of a shadow." "No no! Not yet, my sweet one!" answered Mrs.
She drew his arm about her. "You will go out to see Steve to-morrow, won't you?" "Yes, of course, any time in the afternoon." She kissed him and went back to her room. One precept out of Renault's thin book of life was hard to acquire, Patience. But it must be acquired, the power to abide the time calmly, until the right moment should come. The morrows contain so many reversals of the to-days!
"This day we fashion Destiny, our web of Fate we spin." Lest he should forget that Time's wings are swift and noiseless, and so rapidly bear our to-days to the Land of Yesterday, John Ruskin, philosopher, philanthropist, and tireless worker though he was, kept constantly before his eyes on his study table a large, handsome block of chalcedony, on which was graven the single word "To-day."
So I want to say to those who are trying to learn to speak and those who are teaching them: Be of good cheer. Do not think of to-days failures, but of the success that may come to-morrow.