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Chance generally favors the prudent.
Chance generally favors the prudent.
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.]
He has gone to the demnition bow-wows.
He has gone to the demnition bow-wows.
Each man is the architect of his own fate.
Each man is the architect of his own fate.
Kabira wept when he beheld the millstone roll,
Of that which passes 'twixt the stones, nought goes forth whole.
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Kabira wept when he beheld the millstone roll,
Of that which passes 'twixt the stones, nought goes forth whole.
- Edward B. Eastwick,
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.
As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse
causeless shall not come.
As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse
causeless shall not come.
Fate steals along with silent tread,
Found oftenest in what least we dread;
Frowns in the storm read more
Fate steals along with silent tread,
Found oftenest in what least we dread;
Frowns in the storm with angry brow,
But in the sunshine strikes the blow.
We create our fate every day we live
We create our fate every day we live
