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“Fate is for those too weak to determine their own destiny.”
Kamran Hamid Quotes |
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“We create our fate every day we live”
Henry Miller Quotes |
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“Each man is the architect of his own fate.”
Appius Claudius Quotes |
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“Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.”
Heinrich von Pierer Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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“What fates impose, that men must needs abide; It boots not to resist both wind and tide”
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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”
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“Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.”
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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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“The bow is bent, the arrow flies,
The winged shaft of fate.”
Ira Frederick Aldridge Quotes Source: On William Tell (st. 12)
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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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“Yet who shall shut out Fate?”
Edwin Arnold Quotes Source: Light of Asia (bk. III, l. 336)
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“The heart is its own Fate.”
Philip James Bailey Quotes Source: Festus (sc. Wood and Water, Sunset)
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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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“Here's a sigh to those who love me,
And a smile to those who hate;
And whatever sky's above me,
Here's a heart for every fate.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: To Thomas Moore (st. 2)
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“To bear is to conquer our fate.”
Thomas Campbell Quotes Source: On Visiting a Scene in Argyleshire
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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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“They are raised on high that they may be dashed to pieces with a
greater fall.
[Lat., Tolluntur in altum
Ut lapsu gaviore ruant.]”
Claudian (Claudianus) Quotes Source: In Rufinum (bk. I, 22)
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