He had that sense, or inward prophecy, — which a young man had better never have been born than not to have, and a mature man had better die at once … - Nathaniel Hawthorne

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He had that sense, or inward prophecy, — which a young man had better never have been born than not to have, and a mature man had better die at once than utterly to relinquish, — that we are not doomed to creep on forever in the old bad way, but that, this very now, there are harbingers abroad of a golden era, to be accomplished in his own lifetime.