Men are generally ignorant of all future events, and of the success of their endeavours, and therefore their minds are greatly disquieted, and their expectations frequently disappointed, and they fall into many mistakes and miscarriages, which they could and would prevent if they did foresee the issues of things. Who can tell him? no wise man, no astrologer or other artist, can discover this.
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Ecclesiastes 8:7
7 For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?