Can you make a mistake and miss your fate?

Can you make a mistake and miss your fate?

Stern fate and time
Will have their victims; and the best die first,
Leaving the bad still read more

Stern fate and time
Will have their victims; and the best die first,
Leaving the bad still strong, though past their prime,
To curse the hopeless world they ever curs'd
Vaunting vile deeds, and vainest of the worst.

But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up
another.

But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up
another.

Each man is the architect of his own fate.

Each man is the architect of his own fate.

The heart is its own Fate.

The heart is its own Fate.

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Chance generally favors the prudent.

Chance generally favors the prudent.

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.