Famous quotes containing the words the prophet, rise and/or prophet:
“A friend is Janus-faced: he looks to the past and the future. He is the child of all my foregoing hours, the prophet of those to come, and the harbinger of a greater friend.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“Thou gavst me life, but mortal; for that one
Favour Ill make full satisfaction:
For my life mortal, rise from out thy hearse,
And take a life immortal from my verse.”
—Robert Herrick (15911674)
“Happiness does not await us all. One neednt be a prophet to say that there will be more grief and pain than serenity and money. That is why we must hang on to one another.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (18601904)