Drop the question what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that Fate allows you. She became the Queen of England when she was a week old, but was forced to abdicate her throne to her son because she became a Catholic. She negotiated the Peace of Westphalia, ending the Thirty Years' War.
Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
He invented the cotton gin. 1776 Dec 8, George Washington's retreating army in the American Revolution crossed the Delaware River from New Jersey to Pennsylvania. 1854 Dec 8, Pope Pius IX proclaimed the dogma of the Immaculate Conception. 1861 Dec 8, The American Bible Society announced that it would distribute 7,000 Bibles a day to Union soldiers. 1861 Dec 8, CSS Sumter captured the whaler Eben Dodge in the Atlantic.