Ah! what is human life?
How like the dial's tardy-moving shade,
Day after day slides from us unperceived!
The cunning fugitive is swift by stealth;
Too subtle is the movement to be seen:
Yet soon the hour is up--and we are--gone.
--_Young._
1133
Are we to have a continuous performance by "I did" and "I didn't"?
--_Unknown._
1134
Into each life some rain must fall,
Some days be dark and dreary
But--
Behind the cloud the sun's still shining.
--_Longfellow._
1135
Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done
with, and the future is uncertain.
--_Antoninus._
1136
Lord, help me live from day to day,
In such a self-forgetful way,
That even when I kneel to pray,
My prayer shall be for--others.
1137
No one sees what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars.
--_Cicero._
1138
He who with life makes sport,
Can prosper never;
Who rules himself in nought,
Is a slave ever.
1139