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

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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.

by Found in: Fate Quotes,
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Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling.

Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling.

by Seneca Found in: Fate Quotes,
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Yet who shall shut out Fate?

Yet who shall shut out Fate?

by Edwin Arnold Found in: Fate Quotes,
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Chance generally favors the prudent.

Chance generally favors the prudent.

by Joseph Joubert Found in: Fate Quotes,
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Every one is the architect of his own fortune.

Every one is the architect of his own fortune.

by Mathurin Regnier Found in: Fate Quotes,
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There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

by Albert Camus Found in: Fate Quotes,
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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,

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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.

by Samuel Butler Found in: Fate Quotes,
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He has gone to the demnition bow-wows.

He has gone to the demnition bow-wows.

by Charles Dickens Found in: Fate Quotes,
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