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Updated: June 18, 2025
However hope may tempt us to dream that the future is like the present, a deeper wisdom lies in all our souls which says 'No. Drunken bravery may front that darkness with such words as these of our text, but the least serious spirit, in its most joyous moods, never quite succeeds in forgetting the solemn probabilities, possibilities, and certainties which lodge in the unknown future.
But next morning, within the little cottage beating rain on the windows, and a cheerless storm-light in the tiny rooms the hard facts of the situation resumed their sway. In the first place money questions had to be faced. Fenwick made the most of his expectations; but at best they were no more, and how to live till they became certainties was the problem.
'Would His Honour allow me to inquire whether there are strong suspicions of any one? 'More than suspicions, sir, returned Mr. Sapsea; 'all but certainties. 'Only think now! cried Mr. Datchery. 'But proof, sir, proof must be built up stone by stone, said the Mayor. 'As I say, the end crowns the work.
More than once some paradox or question of his had shaken her neatest systems into a thousand cracks, and opened up ugly depths of doubt, even on the most seemingly-palpable certainties; or some half-jesting allusion to those Hebrew Scriptures, the quantity and quality of his faith in which he would never confess, made her indignant at the notion that he considered himself in possession of a reserved ground of knowledge, deeper and surer than her own, in which he did not deign to allow her to share.
The dreary months, as I am content that in their second phase especially they should be called, are subject, I repeat, to the perversion, quite perhaps to the obscuration, of my temporarily hindered health which should keep me from being too sure of these small proportions of experience I was to look back afterwards as over so grey a desert; through which, none the less, there flush as sharp little certainties, not to be disallowed, such matters as the general romance of Merridew, the English Librarian, before mentioned, at the mouth of the Port; a connection that thrusts itself upon me now as after all the truest centre of my perceptions waylaying my steps at the time, as I came and went, more than any other object or impression.
There are causes in which an unimpassioned advocacy is worse than silence; and this is one of them. The word of the living God which has saved our souls and brought to us all that makes our natures rich and strong, and all that peoples the great darkness with fair hopes solid as certainties, demands and deserves fervour in its soldiers, and loyal love in its subjects.
As we look ahead over the coming decades, vast new growth and change are not only certainties, they will be the dominant reality of this world, and particularly of our life in America. Surveying the certainty of rapid change, we can be like a fallen rider caught in the stirrups or we can sit high in the saddle, the masters of change, directing it on a course we choose.
They must be not only entries in note-books, to be hurriedly consulted; in the actor's phrase, he must be stale in them; in a word of my grandfather's, they must be "fixed in the mind like the ten fingers and ten toes." These are the certainties of the engineer; so far he finds a solid footing and clear views. But the province of formulas and constants is restricted.
She suddenly realised that Major Guthrie, before leaving England, had made what Jervis Blake had once called "a steeplechase will." Rumours soon grew into certainties.
That was because of the delay, which had encouraged indifference; but it was also because the invitation was expected and because Sally was no longer to be shaken as she would have been by a novelty. She was ready. She was once again a general surveying the certainties of combat with a foe inferior in resources to herself.
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