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Horace Walpole : Prognostics do not always prove prophecies, — at least the wisest prophets make sure of the event first. # Prophecy # Wisdom # Heresy

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Horace Walpole : " The wisest prophets make sure of the event first. " # Prophecy # Wisdom # Heresy

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Sir Isaac Newton : " The folly of Interpreters has been, to foretell times and things by this Prophecy, as if God designed to make them Prophets. By this rashness they have not only exposed themselves, but brought the Prophecy also into contempt. The design of God was much otherwise. He gave this and the Prophecies of the Old Testament, not to gratify mens curiosities by enabling them to foreknow things, but that after they were fulfilled they might be interpreted by the event, and his own Providence, not the Interpreters, be then manifested thereby to the world. " # Prophecy # Wisdom # Heresy

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Georg C Lichtenberg : " With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet. " # Prophecy # Wisdom # Heresy

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Cosmos Carl Sagan : " Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? " # Prophecy # Wisdom # Heresy

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Margaret Mead : " The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does he picture us caught in a tremendous man-made or God-made trap from which there is no escape, but we must also listen to him day in, day out, describe how the trap is inexorably closing. To such prophecies the human race, as presently bred and educated and situated, is incapable of listening. So some dance and some immolate themselves as human torches; some take drugs and some artists spill their creativity in sets of randomly placed dots on a white ground. " # Prophecy # Wisdom # Heresy

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Elwyn Brooks White : " A man's liberal and conservative phases seem to follow each other in a succession of waves from the time he is born. Children are radicals. Youths are conservatives, with a dash of criminal negligence. Men in their prime are liberals (as long as their digestion keeps pace with their intellect). The middle aged run to shelter: they insure their life, draft a will, accumulate mementos and occasional tables, and hope for security. And then comes old age, which repeats childhood -- a time full of humors and sadness, but often full of courage and even prophecy. " # Prophecy # Wisdom # Heresy

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Hubert H Humphrey : " The difference between heresy and prophecy is often one of sequence. Heresy often turns out to have been prophecy -- when properly aged. " # Prophecy # Wisdom # Heresy

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge : " You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it -- low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion -- and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national. The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land. " # Prophecy # Wisdom # Heresy

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Edmund Burke : " The power of discretionary disqualification by one law of Parliament, and the necessity of paying every debt of the Civil List by another law of Parliament, if suffered to pass unnoticed, must establish such a fund of rewards and terrors as will make Parliament the best appendage and support of arbitrary power that ever was invented by the wit of man. This is felt. The quarrel is begun between the Representatives and the People. The Court Faction have at length committed them. In such a strait the wisest may well be perplexed, and the boldest staggered. The circumstances are in a great measure new. We have hardly any land-marks from the wisdom of our ancestors, to guide us. At best we can only follow the spirit of their proceeding in other cases. " # Prophecy # Wisdom # Heresy

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Oliver Cromwell : " We study the glory of God, and the honour and liberty of parliament, for which we unanimously fight, without seeking our own interests... I profess I could never satisfy myself on the justness of this war, but from the authority of the parliament to maintain itself in its rights; and in this cause I hope to prove myself an honest man and single-hearted. " # Prophecy # Wisdom # Heresy

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Horace Walpole: " Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel." # Life and Living # Comedy and Comedians # Humor

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Horace Walpole: " The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think." # Comedy and Comedians

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Horace Walpole: " This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel." # Tragedies # Comedy and Comedians # Life and Living

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Horace Walpole: " The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well." # Secrets

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Horace Walpole: " It was easier to conquer it [the East] than to know what to do with it." # Fear

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Horace Walpole: " Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?" # Friends and Friendship # Freedom # Power

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Horace Walpole: " I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule." # Generations # Freedom # Power

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Horace Walpole: " Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs." # Ambition # Freedom # Power

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Horace Walpole: " It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink." # Misers and Misery # Writers and Writing # Biography

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Horace Walpole: " The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last, some curious traveler from Lima will visit England and give a description of the ruins of St Paul s, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra." # New World # Travel and Tourism # Cities and City Life

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