Future quotes

Table-Talk, Volume I, Essay III, “On the Past and Future,” Project Gutenberg #3020. “The future is yet to come” occurs in Hazlitt’s comparison of the already-existing past with the not-yet-existing future: the full sentence continues that the future “has never been anything.” The retained short excerpt is therefore part of a philosophical contrast, not a prediction, forecasting rule or scientific proposition.

On the Feeling of Immortality in Youth, first published March 1827. The sentence belongs to Hazlitt’s account of expansive youthful expectation and should not be treated as a literal claim of control over the future.

Epistle I.

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, “Proverbs of Hell,” represented by Project Gutenberg #45315 at printed page 16. Gutenberg regularizes the line to “imagined”; Blake’s engraved text is often transcribed with historical spelling and punctuation. The proverb is part of Blake’s deliberately paradoxical infernal-wisdom sequence, not a literal claim that every imagined thing will eventually be proved.

Proverbs 10:28 in the King James Version; opening clause of the verse.

Leaves of Grass (1882), “Song of the Broad-Axe,” section 4; Wikisource 1882 transcription. The line appears after “And the dead advance as much as the living advance” and before Whitman turns from institutions and structures toward the personal qualities he says endure.

Hamlet, Act 4, Scene 5; Ophelia speaks during her disrupted state, so the line remains dramatic dialogue rather than Shakespearean autobiography.

Essay “History,” in Essays: First Series; the image appears in a passage about latent possibility.

Thrift, Chapter I, “Industry,” Project Gutenberg #14418. The sentence occurs in the same definition of thrift as an acquired principle of conduct: present enjoyment is subordinated to forethought so that action serves today while providing for tomorrow.

Counsels and Maxims, T. Bailey Saunders translation, in a discussion of fortune and apparent stability.

Poem 1619; uncertainty about dawn becomes a reason to remain open to possibility.

Cato on Old Age, Shuckburgh translation, in a passage about older people planting for those who come after them.

The Madman, parable of the pomegranate; one voice insists that life without future possibility would feel diminished.

The Madman, parable of the pomegranate; the line closes a dispute among voices imagining different futures.

The Forerunner, opening meditation; the sentence belongs to Gibran’s recurring image of the self as the beginning of another self.

Poems of Progress and New Thought Pastels, “The Structure”; Project Gutenberg #3228. The following lines emphasize purpose, wisdom, resolve and patience, which anchors the rebuilding metaphor.

The Republic, Book IV in Benjamin Jowett’s translation; the line appears during discussion of education and civic character.

Counsels and Maxims, opening general rules on happiness and avoiding unnecessary suffering.

The Way to Wealth, frugality section; Project Gutenberg #43855. The meal-tub is Franklin’s domestic metaphor for continual consumption without replacement.

Optimism: An Essay (1903), Project Gutenberg #31622. The quotation marks are Keller’s; the image belongs to the essay’s concluding vision of optimism.

What You Can Do With Your Will Power, Chapter I, Project Gutenberg #33952. Conwell compares the future to unwrought marble while arguing for will and determination; the surrounding 1917 passage makes sweeping claims about heredity, environment, health and success. This remains historical motivational rhetoric rather than modern psychological or scientific evidence.

The Art of Money Getting, opening economy section; Project Gutenberg #8581. The passage reflects nineteenth-century saving-at-interest advice and is not a promised rate of return.

'The Study of Poetry,' opening passage in the Matthew Arnold selection represented by Project Gutenberg #12628. Arnold begins by quoting his own claim that 'The future of poetry is immense' and then makes it the governing thought for his essay on poetry's critical and sustaining role. This is Victorian literary-critical forecast and cultural argument, not an empirical prediction that poetry will replace every other source of knowledge or support.