A person must stand very tall to see their own fate.

A person must stand very tall to see their own fate.

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

Success, the mark no mortal wit,
Or surest hand, can always hit:
For whatsoe'er we perpetrate,
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Success, the mark no mortal wit,
Or surest hand, can always hit:
For whatsoe'er we perpetrate,
We do but row, we're steer'd by Fate,
Which in success oft disinherits,
For spurious causes, noblest merits.

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

Yet what are they, the learned and the great?
Awhile of longer wonderment the theme!
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Yet what are they, the learned and the great?
Awhile of longer wonderment the theme!
Who shall presume to prophesy their date,
Where nought is certain save the uncertainty of fate?
- Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher,

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

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

Rowe's Rule: the odds are five to six that the light at the end
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Rowe's Rule: the odds are five to six that the light at the end
of the tunnel is the headlight of an oncoming train.

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.