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Fate is for those too weak to determine their own destiny.
Fate is for those too weak to determine their own destiny.
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,
He has gone to the demnition bow-wows.
He has gone to the demnition bow-wows.
Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling.
Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling.
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,
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.]
There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.
There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.
Every one is the architect of his own fortune.
Every one is the architect of his own fortune.
