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Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.
Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.
Fate is for those too weak to determine their own destiny.
Fate is for those too weak to determine their own destiny.
Tempted fate will leave the loftiest star.
Tempted fate will leave the loftiest star.
Fate has carried me
'Mid the thick arrows: I will keep my stand--
Not shrink and let read more
Fate has carried me
'Mid the thick arrows: I will keep my stand--
Not shrink and let the shaft pass by my breast
To pierce another.
Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
Each man is the architect of his own fate.
Each man is the architect of his own fate.
They are raised on high that they may be dashed to pieces with a
greater fall.
[Lat., Tolluntur read more
They are raised on high that they may be dashed to pieces with a
greater fall.
[Lat., Tolluntur in altum
Ut lapsu gaviore ruant.]
Every one is the architect of his own fortune.
Every one is the architect of his own fortune.
Destiny has two ways of crushing us -- by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
Destiny has two ways of crushing us -- by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
