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title: "21 Futurity Quotes by 19 authors"
description: "Browse 21 Futurity quotes by 19 authors. Discover the best Futurity sayings and thoughts."
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> [It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-samuel-johnson/it-seems-to-be-the-fate-of-man-to-seek-all-his-consolations-in-2/)

[William Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-samuel-johnson/)

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> [“Read your fate, see what is before you, and walk on into futurity.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/read-your-fate-see-what-is-before-you-and-walk-on-into-futurity/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

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> [He may, be seeing all things for the best, Incite futurity to do the rest.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/he-may-be-seeing-all-things-for-the-best-incite-futurity-to-do-the/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [Duty and to-day are ours; results and futurity belong to God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace-greeley/duty-and-to-day-are-ours-results-and-futurity-belong-to-god/)

[Horace Greeley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace-greeley/)

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> [Futurity is the great concern of mankind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmund-burke/futurity-is-the-great-concern-of-mankind/)

[Edmund Burke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edmund-burke/)

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> [“All futurity wears the head of an insect.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-joron/all-futurity-wears-the-head-of-an-insect/)

[Andrew Joron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-joron/)

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> [Designedly God covers in dark night the issue of futurity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace/designedly-god-covers-in-dark-night-the-issue-of-futurity/)

[Horace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace/)

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> [It has been well observed that we should treat futurity as an aged friend from whom we expect a rich legacy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-caleb-colton/it-has-been-well-observed-that-we-should-treat-futurity-as-an-aged/)

[Charles Caleb Colton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-caleb-colton/)

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> [They who look but little into futurity, have, perhaps, the quickest sensation of the present.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/they-who-look-but-little-into-futurity-have-perhaps-the-quickest/)

[Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/)

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> [Though fanaticism drinks at many founts, its predisposing cause is mostly the subject of an invisible futurity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-atterbury/though-fanaticism-drinks-at-many-founts-its-predisposing-cause-is/)

[Francis Atterbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francis-atterbury/)

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> [It ever is the marked propensity of restless and aspiring minds to look into the stretch of dark futurity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-baillie/it-ever-is-the-marked-propensity-of-restless-and-aspiring-minds-to/)

[Joanna Baillie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanna-baillie/)

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> [Disbelief in futurity loosens in a great measure the ties of morality, and may be for that reason pernicious to the peace…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-hume/disbelief-in-futurity-loosens-in-a-great-measure-the-ties-of-morality/)

[David Hume](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-hume/)

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> [“Will you be a reader, a student merely, or a seer? Read your fate, see what is before you, and walk on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/will-you-be-a-reader-a-student-merely-or-a-seer-read-your-fate-see/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

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> [The Earth with its scarred face is the symbol of the Past; the Air and Heaven, of Futurity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-taylor-coleridge/the-earth-with-its-scarred-face-is-the-symbol-of-the-past-the-air-and/)

[Samuel Taylor Coleridge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-taylor-coleridge/)

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> [... not one living species will transmit its unaltered likeness to a distant futurity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-darwin/not-one-living-species-will-transmit-its-unaltered-likeness-to-a/)

[Charles Darwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-darwin/)

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> [It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity. The time present is seldom able to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-butler/it-seems-to-be-the-fate-of-man-to-seek-all-his-consolations-in/)

[Samuel Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-butler/)

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> [Futurity is impregnable to mortal ken: no prayer pierces through heaven's adamantine walls. Whether the birds fly right or left, whatever be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-schiller/futurity-is-impregnable-to-mortal-ken-no-prayer-pierces-through/)

[Friedrich Schiller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-schiller/)

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> [We can trace back our existence almost to a point. Former time presents us with trains of thoughts gradually diminishing to nothing.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/humphry-davy/we-can-trace-back-our-existence-almost-to-a-point-former-time/)

[Humphry Davy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/humphry-davy/)

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> [“To see the futurity of the species has always been the privilege of the intellectual elite, or of those who have learnt…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-stuart-mill/to-see-the-futurity-of-the-species-has-always-been-the-privilege-of/)

[John Stuart Mill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-stuart-mill/)

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> [“The modern mind is forced towards the future by a certain sense of fatigue, not unmixed with terror, with which it regards…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-k-chesterton/the-modern-mind-is-forced-towards-the-future-by-a-certain-sense-of/)

[G.K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-k-chesterton/)

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> [If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/if-i-had-no-duties-and-no-reference-to-futurity-i-would-spend-my-life/)

[Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/)

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