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Unhappy is the fate of one who tries to win his battles and succeed in his attacks without cultivating the spirit of enterprise, for the result is waste of time and general stagnation.
Sun Tzu
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What need I fear of thee? But yet I'll make assurance double sure, and take a bond of fate: thou shalt not live; That I may tell pale-hearted fear it lies, And sleep in spite of thunder
William Shakespeare
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The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers,
And heavily in clouds brings on the day,
The great, the important day, big with the fate
Of Cato, and of Rome.
Joseph Addison
Quotes , Source: Cato (act I, sc. 1)
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No power or virtue of man could ever have deserved that what has
been fated should not have taken place.
[Lat., Nulla vis humana vel virtus meruisse unquam potuit, ut,
quod praescripsit fatalis ordo, non fiat.]
Marcellinus Ammianus (Ammianus Marcellinus)
Quotes , Source: Historia (XXIII)
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Let those deplore their doom,
Whose hope still grovels in this dark sojourn:
But lofty souls, who look beyond the tomb,
Can smile at Fate, and wonder how they mourn.
James Beattie
Quotes , Source: The Minstrel (bk. I)
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Yet what are they, the learned and the great?
Awhile of longer wonderment the theme!
Who shall presume to prophesy their date,
Where nought is certain save the uncertainty of fate?
- Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher,
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
Quotes , Source: Rejected Addresses--By Lord Cui Bono
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As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse
causeless shall not come.
Bible
Quotes , Source: Proverbs (ch. XXVI, v. 2)
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But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up
another.
Bible
Quotes , Source: Psalms (ch. LXXV, v. 7)
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Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.
Elizabeth Bowen
Quotes , Source: The House in Paris (pt. 2, ch. 2)
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Many things happen between the cup and the lip.
Robert Burton
Quotes , Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. II, sec. II, memb. 3)
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Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of
them will be what they will be; why then should we desire to be
deceived?
Bishop Joseph Butler
Quotes , Source: Sermon VII--On the Character of Balaam (last paragraph)
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Success, the mark no mortal wit,
Or surest hand, can always hit:
For whatsoe'er we perpetrate,
We do but row, we're steer'd by Fate,
Which in success oft disinherits,
For spurious causes, noblest merits.
Samuel Butler (1)
Quotes , Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, l. 879)
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The wine is poured, you should drink it.
[Fr., Le vin est verse, il faut le boire.]
Thomas Campbell
Quotes , Source: On Visiting a Scene in Argyleshire
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