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 636 PROMISES PROPHECY

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears. La Rochefoucauld—Maxims. No. 39. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Macbeth) Giants in Their promises, but those obtained, weak pigmies In their performance. | author = Massinger | work = Great Duke. Act II. Sc. 3. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 636 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Thy promises are like Adonis' gardens That one day bloomed and fruitful were the next. Henry VI. Pt.. Act I. Sc. 6. L. 6. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 636 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = His promises were, as he then was, mighty; But his performance, as he is now, nothing. Henry VIII. Act IV. Sc. 2. L. 41. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 636 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = And be these juggling fiends no more believ'd, That palter with us in a double sense: That keep the word of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope. Macbeth. Act V. Sc. 8. L. 19. | seealso = (See also {{sc|La Rochefoucauld}}) | topic = | page = 636 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = There buds the promise of celestial worth. Young—Tht Last Day. Bk. III. L. 317. PROOF You may prove anything by figures. Quoted by Carlyle—Chartism,. No. 2. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 636 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = You cannot demonstrate an emotion or prove an aspiration. John Morley—Rousseau. P. 402. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 636 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = For when one's proofs are aptly chosen, Four are as valid as four dozen. Prior—Alma. Canto I. End. Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. J Thessalonians. V. 21. PROPERTY (See Possession) PROPHECY Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life! The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray! Byron—Bride qfAbydos. Canto H. St. 20. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 636 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = 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—Don Juan. Canto XIV. St. 50. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 636 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = The prophet's mantle, ere his flight began, Dropt on the world—a sacred gift to man. Campbell—Pleasures of Hope. Pt. I. L. 43. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 636 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Bene qui conjiciet, vatem hunc perhibebo optimum. I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet. Cicero—De Divinatione. II. 5. (Greek ' SP.) | seealso = (See also {{sc|Lowell, Walpole}}) | topic = | page = 636 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Ancestral voices prophesying war. Coleridge—hubla Khan. We know in part, and we prophesy in part. I Corinthians. XIII. 9. 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 spirits. Erasmus—Praise of Folly. (Old translation.) | seealso = (See also {{sc|Milton}}) | topic = | page = 636 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = 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—Marco Bozzaris. 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—Iliad. Bk. I. L. 138. | note = {{sc|Bryant}}'s trans. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 636 }}