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To bear is to conquer our fate.
To bear is to conquer our fate.
Many things happen between the cup and the lip.
Many things happen between the cup and the lip.
What need I fear of thee? But yet I'll make assurance double sure, and take a bond of fate: thou read more
What need I fear of thee? But yet I'll make assurance double sure, and take a bond of fate: thou shalt not live; That I may tell pale-hearted fear it lies, And sleep in spite of thunder
Each man is the architect of his own fate.
Each man is the architect of his own fate.
Chance generally favors the prudent.
Chance generally favors the prudent.
Fate has carried me
'Mid the thick arrows: I will keep my stand--
Not shrink and let read more
Fate has carried me
'Mid the thick arrows: I will keep my stand--
Not shrink and let the shaft pass by my breast
To pierce another.
Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.
Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.
Yet what are they, the learned and the great?
Awhile of longer wonderment the theme!
Who shall read more
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,
