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Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.
Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.
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,
What fates impose, that men must needs abide; It boots not to resist both wind and tide
What fates impose, that men must needs abide; It boots not to resist both wind and tide
Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.
Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.
Each man is the architect of his own fate.
Each man is the architect of his own 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.
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.
They are raised on high that they may be dashed to pieces with a
greater fall.
[Lat., Tolluntur read more
They are raised on high that they may be dashed to pieces with a
greater fall.
[Lat., Tolluntur in altum
Ut lapsu gaviore ruant.]
