Duty Quote by Horace Greeley

It ever is the marked propensity of restless and aspiring minds to look into the stretch of dark futurity.

— Joanna Baillie

“All futurity wears the head of an insect.”

— Andrew Joron

“Will you be a reader, a student merely, or a seer? Read your fate, see what is before you, and walk on into futurity.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Futurity is impregnable to mortal ken: no prayer pierces through heaven's adamantine walls. Whether the birds fly right or left, whatever be the aspect…

— Friedrich Schiller

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…

— Samuel Johnson

We can trace back our existence almost to a point. Former time presents us with trains of thoughts gradually diminishing to nothing. But our…

— Humphry Davy

... not one living species will transmit its unaltered likeness to a distant futurity.

— Charles Darwin

Though fanaticism drinks at many founts, its predisposing cause is mostly the subject of an invisible futurity.

— Francis Atterbury

It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity.

— William Samuel Johnson

He may, be seeing all things for the best, Incite futurity to do the rest.

— Anonymous

Disbelief in futurity loosens in a great measure the ties of morality, and may be for that reason pernicious to the peace of civil…

— David Hume

The Earth with its scarred face is the symbol of the Past; the Air and Heaven, of Futurity.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge