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Quotes About Portended

Eliza was better tuned to cosmic vibrations. With a full, if inexact, sense of what portended, she gave to Luck's Lad the title of Eugene, a name which, beautifully, means wellborn, but which, as anyone will be able to testify, does not mean, has never meant, well-bred.
~ Thomas Wolfe
The more crowded the concerns of the present, the more difficult it became to see the ways in which the past portended the future. Had
~ R. Scott Bakker