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• There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Inspirational, Motivational, Perseverance

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.497, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Necessity is harsh. Fate has no reprieve.

  Euripides

  Harsh, Reprieve

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides II: Andromache, Hecuba, The Suppliant Women, Electra”, p.132, University of Chicago Press

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• Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Decision, Agents, Illusion

  Sir Muhammad Iqbal, University of the Punjab. Dept. of Iqbal Studies, University of the Punjab (1982). “Iqbal centenary papers”

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• It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.

  William Ernest Henley

  Life, Punishment, Soul

  "Invictus" l. 13 (1888)

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• My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.

  Aeschylus

  Cheer, Believe, Journey

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• There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Accidents

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• The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.

  Huey Newton

  Men, Political, Lessons

  Huey P. Newton (2009). “Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.20, Penguin

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• The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.

  Thomas Sowell

  America, People, Slavery

  Interview with John Hawkins, rightwingnews.com. February 8, 2012.

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• Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed.

  Stefan Zweig

  Demise, Deeds, Immortal

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• I shall seize fate by the throat.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Destiny, Throat

  Ludwig van Beethoven (2014). “Beethoven's Letters”, p.36, Cambridge University Press

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• I see it only that thyself is here, and art and nature, hope and fate, friends, angels and the supreme being shall not be absent from the chamber where thou sittest.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friends, Art, Hero

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1365, Delphi Classics

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• On a windswept hill by a billowing sea, my destiny sits and waits for me.

  Robert Breault

  Destiny, Sea, Waiting

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• Fate, Chance, God’s Will — we all try to account for our lives somehow. What are the chances that two raindrops, flung from the heavens, will merge on a windowpane? Gotta be Fate.

  Robert Breault

  Two, Heaven, Trying

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• Fate does not play jokes.

  Gamal Abdel Nasser

  Play, Doe, Jokes

  Gamal Abdel Nasser (1958). “Egypt's Liberation: The Philosophy of the Revolution”

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• Whoever yields properly to Fate, is deemed Wise among men, and knows the laws of heaven.

  Euripides

  Wise, Men, Yield

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• Maybe Fate isn't the pond you swim in but the fisherman floating on top of it, letting you run the line wild until you are weary enough to be reeled back in.

  Jodi Picoult

  Running, Swim, Lines

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.257, Simon and Schuster

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• Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

  Thomas Merton

  Love, Valentines Day, Destiny

  Thomas Merton (1979). “Love and Living”, p.32, Macmillan

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• Faber est suae quisque fortunae. Each man is the architect of his own fate.

  Appius Claudius Caecus

  Men, Architect, Fate And Destiny

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• We are all puppets in the hands of fate and seldom see the strings.

  Charles W. Chesnutt

  Destiny, Hands, Puppets

  Charles W. Chesnutt (2015). “The Marrow of Tradition”, p.222, Xist Publishing

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• Fate and necessity are unconquerable.

  Joseph Joubert

  Unconquerable

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• Fate determines who comes into our lives Our attitude and actions determine who stays in our lives.

  Javan

  Life, Attitude, Action

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• A man must accept his fate or be destroyed by it

  Spartacus

  Men, Accepting, Destroyed

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• The human heart has a tiresome tendency to label as fate only what crushes it. But happiness likewise, in its way, is without reason, since it is inevitable.

  Albert Camus

  Crush, Heart, Labels

  Albert Camus (1955). “The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays”

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• When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make lemonade.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Funny, Famous Inspirational, Destiny

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• I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.

  William Butler Yeats

  Hate, Fighting, Clouds

  "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death" l. 1 (1919)

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