C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

Prophecy

Ancestral voices prophesying war.

Coleridge.

O my prophetic soul!
My uncle!

Shakespeare.

I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet.

Cicero.

The prophet’s mantle, ere his flight began,
Dropt on the world—a sacred gift to man.

Campbell.

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.

Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe,
Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast;
Is that portentous phrase, “I told you so.”

Byron.

There is a history in all men’s lives,
Figuring the nature of the times deceas’d,
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.

Shakespeare.

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