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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.
Can you make a mistake and miss your fate?
Can you make a mistake and miss your fate?
Fate is for those too weak to determine their own destiny.
Fate is for those too weak to determine their own destiny.
But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up
another.
But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up
another.
It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.
It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.
Many things happen between the cup and the lip.
Many things happen between the cup and the lip.
There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.
There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.
He has gone to the demnition bow-wows.
He has gone to the demnition bow-wows.
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.
