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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.
Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling.
Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling.
Chance generally favors the prudent.
Chance generally favors the prudent.
Every one is the architect of his own fortune.
Every one is the architect of his own fortune.
There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.
There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.
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,
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.
He has gone to the demnition bow-wows.
He has gone to the demnition bow-wows.
