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Tempted fate will leave the loftiest star.
Tempted fate will leave the loftiest star.
Yet what are they, the learned and the great?
Awhile of longer wonderment the theme!
Who shall read more
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,
But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up
another.
But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up
another.
A person must stand very tall to see their own fate.
A person must stand very tall to see their own fate.
Every one is the architect of his own fortune.
Every one is the architect of his own fortune.
No power or virtue of man could ever have deserved that what has
been fated should not have taken read more
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.]
Fate is for those too weak to determine their own destiny.
Fate is for those too weak to determine their own destiny.
Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.
Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.
We create our fate every day we live
We create our fate every day we live
