Famous quotes containing the word prophetic:
“I am about to die, and that is the hour in which men are gifted with prophetic power.”
—Plato (c. 427347 B.C.)
“The legislator must be in advance of his age.
Across the mind of the statesman flash ever and anon the brilliant, though partial, intimations of future events.... Something which is more than fore-sight and less than prophetic knowledge marks the statesman a peculiar being among his contemporaries.”
—Woodrow Wilson (18561924)
“But though Heaven made him poor, with reverence speaking,
He never was a poet of Gods making;
The midwife laid her hand on his thick skull,
With this prophetic blessingBe thou dull;”
—John Dryden (16311700)
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