We usually lose the to-day, because there has been a yesterday, and to-morrow is coming. Goethe.
We very often have to do things during our lives of which we do not understand the reasons, but the more clearly we understand the work we have to do, depend upon it, the better the work will be done. W. E. Forster.
We wander there, we wander here, / We eye the rose upon the brier, / Unmindful that the thorn is near, / Amang the leaves. Burns.
We want but two or three friends, but these 35 we cannot do without, and they serve us in every thought we think. Emerson.
We want downright facts at present more than anything else. Ruskin.
We want foolishly to think the creed a man professes a more significant fact than the man he is. Thoreau.
We want one man to be always thinking, and another to be always working, and we call the one a gentleman, and the other an operative; whereas the workman ought often to be thinking, and the thinker often to be working, and both should be gentlemen in the best sense. Ruskin.
We waste our best years in distilling the sweetest flowers of life into potions which, after all, do not immortalise, but only intoxicate. Longfellow.
We wear a face of joy because / We have been 40 glad of yore. Wordsworth.
We, who name ourselves its (the world) sovereigns, we, / Half dust, half deity, alike unfit / To sink or soar. Byron.