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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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• Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on.

  Zeno of Citium

  Goes On, World, Reason

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• Men at sometime are the masters of their fate.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Men, Masters

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• I wonder how many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with.

  Fannie Flagg

  Love, Relationship, Heart

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• Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Destiny, Blood, Water

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• When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Destiny, Conscious

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• We are the masters of our fate, the captains of our souls, because we have the power to control our thoughts.

  Napoleon Hill

  Soul, Captains, Masters

  Napoleon Hill, Wallace D. Wattles (2012). “Get Rich Collection”, p.20, Penguin

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• I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.

  Abraham Cowley

  Night, Clouds, Wish

  Abraham Cowley, “A Vote (Excerpt)”

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• I'm a very big believer in fate.

  Christopher Atkins

  Bigs, Believer

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world. And you don't have to be a poet or a philosopher to know which is best.

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Attitude, People, Soul

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• Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.

  Horace

  Hands, Names, Lows

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• A man, when he wishes, is the master of his fate.

  Jose Ferrer

  Inspirational, Men, Wish

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• The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day, The great, the important day, big with the fate Of Cato and of Rome.

  Joseph Addison

  Morning, Clouds, Rome

  Joseph Addison (1825). “Cato: A Tragedy, in Five Acts”, p.1

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• I think quite often a fate worse than death is life, for lots of people.

  Tom Baker

  Destiny, Thinking, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• No one's fate is of any interest to you except your own.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Interest

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• In a sad twist of fate, the bill to reauthorize the Patriot Act was debated on the floor of the House of Representatives the same day that terrorists struck again.

  Jim Sensenbrenner

  House, Usa Patriot Act, Twists

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• It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.

  Joseph Conrad

  People, Waiting, Good Man

  Joseph Conrad (1915). “Wisdom and Beauty from Conrad: Selected and Arranged by M. Harriet M. Capes”

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• It is the fate of operating systems to become free.

  Neal Stephenson

  Operating Systems

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• The last I heard from my destiny, it wanted me to make a legal U-Turn at my next opportunity.

  Robert Breault

  Opportunity, Destiny, Lasts

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• When we say that the persistence of competition is ensured by fate, we mean that individual freedom is so guaranteed. The one thing to which fate binds us is liberty.

  John Bates Clark

  Mean, Persistence, Competition

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• The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Destiny, Intellectual, Elements

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• Alas, by the time Fate caught up with my life, Chance had it all planned.

  Robert Breault

  Chance, Caught, Alas

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• It is sad when two people turn from the paths they’re traveling, and their paths go on to cross without them.

  Robert Breault

  Two, People, Goes On

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• Our destiny hides among our free choices, disguised as the free-est of all.

  Robert Breault

  Destiny, Choices, Free Choice

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• Fate steals along with silent tread, Found oftenest in what least we dread; Frowns in the storm with angry brow, But in the sunshine strikes the blow.

  William Cowper

  Sunshine, Blow, Storm

  William Cowper, James Thomson (1832). “The Works of Cowper and Thompson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country. With a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson”, p.118

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