Quote #34

The best of prophets of the future is the past.

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  1. Oh, talk not to me of a name great in story; The days of our youth are the days of our glory; And the myrtle and ivy of sweet two-and-twent…
  2. The world is a bundle of hay, Mankind are the asses that pull, Each tugs in a different way- And the greatest of all is John Bull!
  3. And if we do but watch the hour, There never yet was human power Which could evade, if unforgiven, The patient search and vigil long Of him…
  4. Send me no more reviews of any kind. - I will read no more of evil or good in that line. - Walter Scott has not read a review of himself fo…
  5. 'Bring forth the horse!' - the horse was brought; In truth, he was a noble steed, A Tartar of the Ukraine breed, Who look'd as though the s…
  6. Because He is all-powerful, must all-good, too, follow? I judge but by the fruits-and they are bitter- Which I must feed on for a fault not…
  7. Were't the last drop in the well, As I gasp'd upon the brink, Ere my fainting spirit fell 'T is to thee that I would drink.
  8. Who killed John Keats? 'I,' says the Quarterly, So savage and Tartarly; ''Twas one of my feats.'

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