Fate

The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers,Of Cato, and of Rome.

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For whatever reasons, Ray, call it . . . fate, call it luck, call it karma. I believe everything happens for a reason. I believe that we were destined to get thrown out of this dump.

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Fate has a way of circling back on a man, and taking him by surprise. A man sees things differently at different times in his life. This town didn't seem the same now that he was older.

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The heart is its own Fate.

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There's nothing you can know that isn't known It's easy

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Let those deplore their doom,Can smile at Fate, and wonder how they mourn.

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There is no fate but what we make.

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Many things happen between the cup and the lip.

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Success, the mark no mortal wit,For spurious causes, noblest merits.

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Don't let them tell us stories. Don't let them say of the man sentenced to death "He is going to pay his debt to society," but: "They are going to cut off his head." It looks like nothing. But it does make a little difference. And then there are people who prefer to look their fate in the eye.

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Fate was turning a page in her Book of Delusions.

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Fate steals along with silent tread,But in the sunshine strikes the blow.

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He has gone to the demnition bow-wows.

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Before I draw nearer to that stone to which you point, answer me one question. Are these the shadows of the things that will be, or are they shadows of things that May be only?

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Fate has carried meTo pierce another.

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Marty, the future isn't written. It can be changed. You know that. Anyone can make their future whatever they want it to be.

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How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.

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We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar. ...Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out.

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'Tis strange how the heart can createWe are ourselves our happiness.

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All are architects of Fate, Some with ornaments of rhyme.

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Everything is preordained. Even my responses.

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We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us.

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Fool, don't you know you cannot change your fate.

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Fate is Never Final.

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I do not believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing.

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Eat, speak, and move, under the influence of the most received star; and though the devil lead the measure such are to be followed.

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My fate cries out,As hardy as the Numean lion's nerve.

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Our wills and fates do so contrary runOur thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own.

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O God! that one might read the book of fate,Into the sea!

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What fates impose, that men must needs abide;It boots not to resist both wind and tide.

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If thou read this, O Cæsar, thou mayst live;If not, the Fates with traitors do contrive.

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Fates, we will know your pleasures:And drawing days out, that men stand upon.

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What should be spoken here, where our fate,Hid within an auger-hole, may rush, and seize us?

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But yet I'll make assurance double sure,And take a bond of fate: thou shalt not live.

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But, O vain boast!Who can control his fate?

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You fools! I and my fellowsOne dowle that's in my plume.

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Fate, show thy force; ourselves we do not owe;What is decreed must be, and be this so.

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As the old hermit of Prague … said,… "That that is, is."

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Let me tell you about my fate: it is an insult. Let me explain it to you: it is a disgrace.I looked into the water. My destiny was drifting past. I was born on an ill-fated day.

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Fate is a dog, well able to bite.

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Fate is a raging storm blowing over the Land.

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A pig which was about to be slaughtered by the pig-butcher squealed. (The butcher said:) "Your ancestors and forebears walked this road, and now you too are walking it, so why are you squealing?"

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Fate is a wet bank; it can make one slip.

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Human effort can be used for self-betterment and that there is no such thing as an external fate imposed by the gods.

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The bow is bent, the arrow flies,The wingéd shaft of fate.

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Yet who shall shut out Fate?

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Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why, then, should we desire to be deceived?

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Here's a sigh to those who love me, Here's a heart for every fate.

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To bear is to conquer our fate.

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All human things are subject to decay,And when fate summons, monarchs must obey.

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'Tis Fate that flings the dice, And of peasants kings.

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Stern fate and timeVaunting vile deeds, and vainest of the worst.

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One common fate we both must prove;You die with envy, I with love.

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Each curs'd his fate that thus their project cross'd;How hard their lot who neither won nor lost.

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Yet, ah! why should they know their fate,Thought would destroy their paradise.

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Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.

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Why doth IT so and so, and ever so,This viewless, voiceless Turner of the Wheel?

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'Tis writ on Paradise's gate,"Woe to the dupe that yields to Fate!"

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Toil is the lot of all, and bitter woeThe fate of many.

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Jove lifts the golden balances that showThe fates of mortal men, and things below.

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And not a man appears to tell their fate.

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With equal pace, impartial FateKnocks at the palace, as the cottage gate.

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East, to the dawn, or west or south or north!Loose rein upon the neck of—and forth!

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I do not know beneath what sky I only know it shall be great.

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Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate,Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate?

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Blue! Gentle cousin of the forest-green,When in an Eye thou art alive with fate!

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Fate holds the strings, and Men like children moveBut as they're led: Success is from above.

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Some things are fixed, some things are in flux. Pompeii is fixed.

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All are architects of Fate, Some with ornaments of rhyme.

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No one is so accursed by fate, Responds unto his own.

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A millstone and the human heart are driven ever round,If they have nothing else to grind, they must themselves be ground.

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Kabira wept when he beheld the millstone roll,Of that which passes 'twixt the stones, nought goes forth whole.

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It lies not in our power to love or hate,For will in us is over-rul'd by fate.

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Earth loves to gibber o'er her dross, Is a bitter cup to taste.

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For him who fain would teach the world For Christ, Gethsemane.

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He either fears his fate too much, To gain or lose it all.

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All the great things of life are swiftly done, We have to hurry at the touch of Fate.

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And sing to those that hold the vital shears;On which the fate of gods and men is wound.

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Fixed, fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute.

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Necessity and chanceApproach not me, and what I will is fate.

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The Moving Finger writes; and having writ,Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.

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Big with the fate of Rome.

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"Thou shalt see me at Philippi," was the remark of the spectre which appeared to Brutus in his tent at Abydos [B.C. 42]. Brutus answered boldly: "I will meet thee there." At Philippi the spectre reappeared, and Brutus, after being defeated, died upon his own sword.

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But blind to former as to future fate,What mortal knows his pre-existent state?

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Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate.

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A brave man struggling in the storms of fate.

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As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come.

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He putteth down one and setteth up another.

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Fate sits on these dark battlements, and frowns;Tells of a nameless deed.

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I do not believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing.

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Yet what are they, the learned and the great?Where nought is certain save the uncertainty of fate?

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Two shall be born, the whole wide world apart,And read life's meanings in each other's eyes.

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Fate is a wet bank; it can make one slip.

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From too much love of living, Winds somewhere safe to sea.

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Sometimes an hour of Fate's serenest weather Waits the fulfilment of our dearest dreams.

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I saw him even now going the way of all flesh.

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This day we fashion Destiny, our web of Fate we spin.

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My fearful trust "en vogant la galère." (Come what may.)

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