“There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased, The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured.” MenMayLyingChanceWeakAimSeedsProphecyDeceased Author:William Shakespeare
“Not understanding the process of a spontaneously-ordered economy goes hand-in-hand with not understanding the creation of resources and wealth. And when a person does not understand the creation of resources and wealth, the only intellectual alternative is to believe that increasing wealth must be at the cost of someone else. This belief that our good fortune must be an exploitation of others may be the taproot of false prophecy about doom that our evil ways must bring upon us.” WayBelieveMayPersonsDoeHandsEvilBeliefProcessUnderstandingWealthEconomyCreationCostIntellectualResourcesFortuneAlternativesExploitationProphecyDoomGood FortuneHand In Hand Author:Julian Simon
“I will make a prophecy that may now sound peculiar. In fifty years Lincoln's name will be inscribed close to Washington's on this Republic's roll of honor.” YearsMayNamesSoundHonorFiftyRepublicPeculiarProphecy Book:Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz Source: Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz
“I am through generalizing about ideas apart from men who generate them. I am through writing books about the dead, or writing books about the living to the unborn (tucked away as Literature) or writing books about the unborn to the living (whiffed away as prophecy). I put up my life on advertising the living to the living, on making men of genius known to the people and interpreted to their time, that the time in which I live, may live face to face with its men of vision and that they may live face to face with one another.” PeopleMenWritingMayBookIdeasFacesLiteratureKnownVisionGeniusAdvertisingProphecyFace To FaceWriting A BookLiving OnUnborn Book:The House of Twenty Seven Gardens Source: The House of Twenty Seven Gardens
“Poets may boast (as safely-vain) Their work shall with the world remain: Both bound together, live, or die, The verses and the prophecy. But who can hope his lines shou'd long Last, in a daily changing tongue? While they are new, envy prevails, And as that dies, our language fails.” WorldMayLongTogetherLastsDiesLanguageLinesFailingPoetBoundsTongueEnvyVainVersesProphecyBoast Author:Edmund Waller