aforeshapen

Updated: June 18, 2025

Sybils and prophets have already spoken their inexorable decree, as Goethe has said, on the day that first gives the man to the world; no time and no might can break the stamped mould of his character; only as life wears on, do all its aforeshapen lines come into light.

John Morley - Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 1 of 3): Essay 1: Robespierre