"Destiny has two ways of crushing us -- by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on Fate
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"Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time."

Aurelius, Marcus on Fate
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"Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be."

Aurelius, Marcus on Fate
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"Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall."

Bacon, Francis on Fate
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"Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not."

Bacon, Francis on Fate
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"Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat."

Bowen, Elizabeth on Fate
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"Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on Fate
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"There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on Fate
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"Tempted fate will leave the loftiest star."

Byron, Lord on Fate
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"But now our fate from unmomentous things, may rise like rivers out of little springs."

Campbell on Fate
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"The men and woman who make the best boon companions seem to have given up hope of doing something else...some defect of talent or opportunity has cut them off from their pet ambition and has thus left them with leisure to take an interest in their lives of others. Your ambition may be, it makes him keep his thoughts at home. But the heartbroken people -- if I may use the word in a mild, benevolent sense -- the people whose wills are subdued to fate, give us consolation, recognition, and welcome."

Chapman, John Jay on Fate
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"Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven."

Confucius on Fate
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"The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, I shall today be uppermost."

Confucius on Fate
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"We make our fortunes and we call them fate."

Disraeli, Benjamin on Fate
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"All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey."

Dryden, John on Fate
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"Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before!"

Dryden, John on Fate
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"Whatever limits us we call fate."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Fate
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"If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your good."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Fate
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"Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Fate
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"The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain."

Horace on Fate
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"I do not know beneath what sky nor on what seas shall be thy fate; I only know it shall be high, I only know it shall be great."

Hovey, Richard on Fate
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"Chance generally favors the prudent."

Joubert, Joseph on Fate
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"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate."

Jung, Carl on Fate
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"Sail on ship of state, sail on, I union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, with all its hopes of future years, is hanging on thy fate!"

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on Fate
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"Fate keeps on happening."

Loos, Anita on Fate
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"Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate."

Mann, Thomas on Fate
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"The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it."

Moliere on Fate
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"Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish."

Ovid on Fate
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"Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist."

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"The wheel goes round and round, some are up and some are on the down, and still the wheel goes round."

Pollard, Josephine on Fate
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"Throw a lucky man into the sea, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth."

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"One must either be the hammer or the anvil."

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"Every one is the architect of his own fortune."

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"Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on Fate
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"It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards."

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"Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant."

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"Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order."

Seneca on Fate
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"The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling."

Seneca on Fate
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"Men at sometime are the masters of their fate."

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"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves; we are underlings."

Shakespeare, William on Fate
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