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It's choice--not chance--that determines your destiny.
It's choice--not chance--that determines your destiny.
A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of
the fish that read more
A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of
the fish that hath fed of that worm.
Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is read more
Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.
Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, read more
Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.
In life, the only certainty is uncertainty.
In life, the only certainty is uncertainty.
Let Hercules himself do what he may,
The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.
Let Hercules himself do what he may,
The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.
Upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.
Upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.
Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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.