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He has gone to the demnition bow-wows.
He has gone to the demnition bow-wows.
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,
Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling.
Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling.
Can you make a mistake and miss your fate?
Can you make a mistake and miss your fate?
Stern fate and time
Will have their victims; and the best die first,
Leaving the bad still read more
Stern fate and time
Will have their victims; and the best die first,
Leaving the bad still strong, though past their prime,
To curse the hopeless world they ever curs'd
Vaunting vile deeds, and vainest of the worst.
To bear is to conquer our fate.
To bear is to conquer our fate.
Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
We create our fate every day we live
We create our fate every day we live