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It's choice--not chance--that determines your destiny.
It's choice--not chance--that determines your destiny.
 No living man can send me to the shades
 Before my time; no man of woman born,
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 No living man can send me to the shades
 Before my time; no man of woman born,
  Coward or brave, can shun his destiny. 
And so we stand here motionless, waiting for the bitter end of all that is beautiful in this world; hoping read more
And so we stand here motionless, waiting for the bitter end of all that is beautiful in this world; hoping only that the futures power will shed light on a new and wonderful destiny.
Men heap together the mistakes of their lives and create a monster they call destiny.
Men heap together the mistakes of their lives and create a monster they call destiny.
All, soon or late, are doom'd that path to tread.
All, soon or late, are doom'd that path to tread.
 Here burns my candle out; ay, here it dies,
 Which, whiles it lasted, gave King Henry light.  
 Here burns my candle out; ay, here it dies,
 Which, whiles it lasted, gave King Henry light. 
 We are what we must
 And not what we would be. I know that one hour
  Assures read more 
 We are what we must
 And not what we would be. I know that one hour
  Assures not another. The will and the power
   Are diverse. 
Every man meets his Waterloo at last.
Every man meets his Waterloo at last.
Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is read more
Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.