“That which comes after ever conforms to that which has gone before.”

“Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events.”

“All his successors gone before him have done 't; and all his ancestors that come after him may.”

“The quarrel between a tremendous democratic electorate and a one-sided hereditary chamber of wealthy men has often been…”

“O thou, whose certain eye foresees The fix'd events of fate's remote decrees.”

“And what he greatly thought, he nobly dar'd.”