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Letter "F" » futurity
«The military mind is indeed a menace. Old-fashioned futurity that sees only men fighting and dying in smoke and fire; hears nothing more civilized than a cannonade; scents nothing but the stink of battle-wounds and blood.»
«To tell of disappointment and misery, to thicken the darkness of futurity, and perplex the labyrinth of uncertainty, has been always a delicious employment of the poets»
Author: Samuel Johnson
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Critic,
Poet,
Writer)
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About:
Disappointment
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Keywords:
Delicious,
employment,
futurity,
labyrinth,
labyrinths,
perplex,
perplexing,
the Poets,
thicken
«They who look but little into futurity, have, perhaps, the quickest sensation of the present»
«It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity»
«If . . . I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman.»
«I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principles of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(
Author,
President)
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Keywords:
armies,
banked,
banking,
establishments,
funding,
futurity,
large,
large scale,
name,
paid,
posterity,
principles,
scale,
scaled,
scaling,
sincerely,
spending,
spending money,
standing,
swindle,
swindled,
swindles,
swindling,
The name
«The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale»
«All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.»
Author: William Blake
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Engraver,
Mystic,
Painter,
Poet)
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Keywords:
desperate,
endless,
futurity,
quenchless,
rage,
remorse,
repel,
repelled,
repelling,
repels,
swallows,
teem,
teeming,
teeming with,
teems