A serious prophet upon predicting a flood should be the first man to climb a tree. This would demonstrate that he was indeed a seer.
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Stephen Crane
If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next–if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions–you'd be doomed. You'd be ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or...
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Margaret Atwood
A man may plant a tree for a number of reasons. Perhaps he likes trees. Perhaps he wants shelter. Or perhaps he knows that someday he may need the firewood.
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Joanne Harris
You can't be conferred with a glory you never configured your mind to come to.
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Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time... and you can't see it if you refuse to face the possibility.
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William S. Burroughs
More Quotes By Charles Buxton
You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.
To make pleasure pleasant shorten.
Pounds are the sons not of pounds but of pence.
Sometimes success is due less to ability than zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work body and soul.
