Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

Chance generally favors the prudent.

Chance generally favors the prudent.

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,

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

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

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.

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.

Each man is the architect of his own fate.

Each man is the architect of his own fate.

He has gone to the demnition bow-wows.

He has gone to the demnition bow-wows.