"Wheels within wheels,
Worlds without end;
Of the distant future
Do my words portend;
Darkness spreads,
All light to end,
Emptiness, entropy,
Inherit the wind;
Come my daughter,
You I send;
Beyond the veil,
To worlds forfend:
Pony and human,
Must together contend,
And then the paths
Of fate may bend..."
-Faust's final prophecy.
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"Unlike magnetic polarities, in which likes repel and unlikes attract,
on the moral level likes attract and unlikes repel. Good gathers good
unto itself, and evil gathers evil unto itself, and a sufficiently great
evil can subjugate lesser evils unto it's service, whether they will or
not. Thus lesser evils must be subdued quickly, lest some terrible
darkness grow greater by incorporating their power."
-Merlinus Ambrosius
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"Tremulous skiens of destiny,
Flutter so ethereally,
About me, but then I feel,
It's embrace, is that of steel.
Is each of us a creature free,
Or chained at birth by destiny?
Pity those who think the latter,
Without freedom,
Nothing matters."
-The Book of Counted Sorrows
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"Hope
Requires the contender,
Who sees no virtue
In surrender;
From the cradle,
To the bier,
The heart must always
Persevere."
-The Book of Counted Joys
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"One ring for the dark queen,
Who reclines on her throne,
In the changeling vale,
Where magics fail..."
-Last surviving remnant of
Starswirl's 27th prophecy