For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
Bible
Quotes , Source: I Corinthians (ch. XIII, v. 9)
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We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well
that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place,
until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any
private interpretation.
Bible
Quotes , Source: I Peter (ch. I, v. 19-20)
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And it came to pass, when all that knew him beforetime saw that,
behold, he prophesied among the prophets, then the people said
one to another, What is this that is come unto the son of Kish?
Is Saul also among the prophets?
Bible
Quotes , Source: I Samuel (ch. X, v. 9)
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And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them, A
prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in
his own house.
Bible
Quotes , Source: Matthew (ch. XIV, v. 57)
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Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for
ever?
Bible
Quotes , Source: Zechariah (ch. I, v. 5)
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Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life!
The evening beam that smiles the clouds away,
And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray!
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Quotes , Source: The Bride of Abydos (canto II, st. 20)
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The prophet's mantle, ere his flight began,
Dropt on the world--a sacred gift to man.
Thomas Campbell
Quotes , Source: Pleasures of Hope (pt. I, l. 43)
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I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet.
[Lat., Bene qui conjiciet, vatem hunc perhibebo optimum.]
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Quotes , Source: De Divinatione (II, 5), Greek adage
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From hence, no question, has sprung an observation
. . . confirmed now into a settled opinion, that some long
experienced souls in the world, before their dislodging, arrive
to the height of prophetic spirit.
Desiderius Gerhard Erasmus
Quotes , Source: Praise of Folly, (old translation)
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Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word;
And in its hollow tones are heard
The thanks of millions yet to be.
Fitz-Greene Halleck
Quotes , Source: Marco Bozzaris
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Prophet of evil! never hadst thou yet
A cheerful word for me. To mark the signs
Of coming mischief is thy great delight,
Good dost thou ne'er foretell nor bring to pass.
Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")
Quotes , Source: The Iliad (bk. I, l. 138), (Bryant's translation)
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A tunnel underneath the sea from Calais straight to Dover, Sir,
The squeamish folks may cross by land from shore to shore,
With sluices made to drown the French, if e'er they would come
over, Sir,
Has long been talk'd of, till at length 'tis thought a monstrous
bore.
Theodore Hook
Quotes , Source: Bubbles of 1825, in "John Bull"
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Theodore Hook
Quotes , Source: Bubbles of 1825, in "John Bull"
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This solemn moment of triumph, one of the greatest moments in the
history of the world . . . this great hour which rings in a new
era . . . and which is going to lift up humanity to a higher
plane of existence for all the ages of the future.
David Lloyd George
Quotes , Source: in a speech at Guildhall after the signing of the Armistice, ending of World War I
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My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 't is to crow:
Don't never prophesy--onless ye know.
James Russell Lowell
Quotes , Source: The Biglow Papers (no. 2, Mason and Slidell)
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It takes a mind like Dannel's, fact, ez big ez all ou'doors
To find out thet it looks like rain arter it fairly pours.
James Russell Lowell
Quotes , Source: The Biglow Papers (no. 9, l. 97)
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No mighty trance, or breathed spell
Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.
John Milton
Quotes , Source: Hymn on Christ's Nativity (l. 173)
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Till old experience do attain
To something like prophetic strain.
John Milton
Quotes , Source: Il Penseroso (l. 173)
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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.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part II (Warwick at III, i)
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Prognostics do not always prove prophecies, at least the wisest
prophets make sure of the event first.
Horace Walpole
Quotes , Source: Letter to Thomas Walpole
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