William Hale White - The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford

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One fourth of life is intelligible, the other three-fourths is unintelligible darkness; and our first duty is to cultivate the habit of not looking round the corner.

William Hale White

As I got older I became aware of the folly of this perpetual reaching after the future, and of drawing from to-morrow, and from to-morrow only, a reason for the joyfulness of to-day.

William Hale White

Men should not be too curious in analysing and condemning any means which nature devises to save them from themselves, whether it be coins, old books, curiosities, butterflies, or fossils.

William Hale White