Up to a point a man's life is shaped by environment, heredity, and movements and changes in the world about him. Then there comes a time when it lies within his grasp to shape the clay of his life into the sort of thing he wishes to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune, or the quirks of fate. Everyone has it within his power to say, "This I am today, that I will be tomorrow."
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To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.
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That eagle's fate and mine are one, Which on the shaft that made him die Espied a feather of his own, Wherewith he wont to soar so high.
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For fate has wove the thread of life with pain, And twins ev'n from the birth are misery and man!
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The fact that we don't know this man, isn't important really. Cause his experience is our experience, and his fate is our fate. Vani tass, vani tatum, et omni i vani tass, says the preacher. All is vanity I think that's a pretty good epitaph for all of us. When we're stripped of all our worldly possessions and all our fame, family, friends, we all face death alone. But it's that solitude in death that's our common bond in life. I know it's ironic, but that's just the way things are. Vani tass, vani tatum, et omni i vani tass. Only when we understand all is vanity, only then, it isn't.
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A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus can he persuade others, as well as himself, that he is a worthy target for the arrows of fate.
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Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call you.
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Desire nothing, Chafe not at fate, nor at Nature's changeless laws. But struggle only with the personal, the transitory, the evanescent and the perishable.
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The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate; Death lays his icy hands on kings.
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
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I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
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A man's character is his fate.
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You were a stranger to sorrow therefore Fate has cursed you.
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What a man thinks of himself that is what determines, or rather indicates his fate.
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I'll make assurance double sure, And take a bond of fate.
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The best of men cannot suspend their fate The good die early, and the bad die late.
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Drop the question what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that fate allows you.
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Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.
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It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
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Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
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It is the Soul's prerogative, its fate To shape the outward to its own estate.
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Shakes his ambrosial curls, and gives the nod, The stamp of fate, and sanction of the god.
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We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.
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Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling. Epistulae ad Lucilium
Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
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