Fate is what happens to you when your luck runs out.

Fate is what happens to you when your luck runs out.

Here burns my candle out; ay, here it dies,
Which, whiles it lasted, gave King Henry light.

Here burns my candle out; ay, here it dies,
Which, whiles it lasted, gave King Henry light.

Every man meets his Waterloo at last.

Every man meets his Waterloo at last.

And so we stand here motionless, waiting for the bitter end of all that is beautiful in this world; hoping read more

And so we stand here motionless, waiting for the bitter end of all that is beautiful in this world; hoping only that the futures power will shed light on a new and wonderful destiny.

My death and life,
My bane and antidote, are both before me.

My death and life,
My bane and antidote, are both before me.

Unseen hands delay
The coming of what oft seems close in ken,
And, contrary, the moment, when read more

Unseen hands delay
The coming of what oft seems close in ken,
And, contrary, the moment, when we say
"'Twill never come!" comes on us even then.

One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it.

One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it.

Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay,
Might stop a hole to keep the wind away.
O, read more

Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay,
Might stop a hole to keep the wind away.
O, that that earth which kept the world in awe
Should patch a wall t' expel the winter's flaw!

They only fall, that strive to move,
Or lose, that care to keep.

They only fall, that strive to move,
Or lose, that care to keep.