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Many things happen between the cup and the lip.
Many things happen between the cup and the lip.
He has gone to the demnition bow-wows.
He has gone to the demnition bow-wows.
Can you make a mistake and miss your fate?
Can you make a mistake and miss your fate?
Chance generally favors the prudent.
Chance generally favors the prudent.
To bear is to conquer our fate.
To bear is to conquer our fate.
Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.
Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.
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 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.
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.]
