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• No peace was ever won from fate by subterfuge or argument; no peace is ever in store for any of us, but that which we shall win by victory over shame or sin--victory over the sin that oppresses, as well as over that which corrupts.

  John Ruskin

  Peace, Winning, Victory

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• Despair makes a despicable figure, and descends from a mean original. 'Tis the offspring of fear, of laziness and impatience; it argues a defect of spirit and resolution, and oftentimes of honesty, too. I would not despair unless I saw misfortune recorded in the book of fate, and signed and sealed by necessity.

  Jeremy Collier

  Honesty, Book, Mean

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• I think some orator commenting upon that fate said that though the winds of heaven might whistle around an Englishman's cottage, the King of England could not.

  John James Ingalls

  Kings, Home, Thinking

  Speach in the U.S. Senate, May 10, 1880.

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• I knock unbidden once at every gate--
  If sleeping, wake--if feasting, rise before
  I turn away--it is the hour of fate,
  And they who follow me reach every state
  Mortals desire, and conquer every foe
  Save death, but those who doubt of hesitate,
  Condemned to failure, penury and woe,
  Seek me in vain and uselessly implore,
  I answer not, and I return no more.

  John James Ingalls

  Sleep, Opportunity, Doubt

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• Letters crossing in the post, unfamiliar tunes heard three times in one day, the way that blows of fate descend upon the same bowed shoulders, and the beams of good fortune glow perpetually upon the blessed. Fairy tales, as I said, are lived out daily. There is far more going on in the world than we ever imagine.

  Fay Weldon

  Life, Blessed, Blow

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• The source of each accordant strain
  Lies deeper than the Poet's brain.
  First from the people's heart must spring
  The passions which he learns to sing;
  They are the wind, the harp is he,
  To voice their fitful melody,--
  The language of their varying fate,
  Their pride, grief, love, ambition, hate,--
  The talisman which holds inwrought
  The touchstone of the listener's thought;
  That penetrates each vain disguise,
  And brings his secret to his eyes.

  Bayard Taylor

  Lying, Hate, Spring

  Bayard Taylor (1866). “The Poems”, p.111

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• The nation becomes the master of its fate not only when it has many good sons, but also when it possesses enough strength to restrain its bad ones.

  Roman Dmowski

  Son, Enough, Masters

  "Podstawy polityki polskiej", Przegląd Wszechpolski, 343, 349, 358-359, July 1905.

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• Fate is unpenetrated causes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Causes

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II”, p.331

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• Destiny is thrifty. To weave her tapestry, she uses even the tiniest snips of thread.

  Zelda Popkin

  Destiny, Use, Thrifty

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• if the right man does not come along, there are many fates far worse. One is to have the wrong man come along.

  Letitia Baldrige

  Men, Dating, Doe

  Letitia Baldrige (1968). “Of Diamonds and Diplomats”, New York : Ballantine Books

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• All you need to do is write truly and not care about what the fate of it is.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Needs, Care

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.408, Simon and Schuster

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• I would not despair unless I knew the irrevocable decree was passed; saw my misfortune recorded in the book of fate, and signed and sealed by neces-sity.

  Jeremy Collier

  Book, Despair, Saws

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• people who seem most hostile to my presence are those most fearful of my fate. And since their fear keeps them emotionally distant from me, they are the ones least likely to learn that my life isn't half so dismal as they assume.

  Nancy Mairs

  People, Half, Assuming

  Nancy Mairs (2001). “Waist-High In The World: A Life Among the Nondisabled”, p.102, Beacon Press

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• Timing. We give it many names: Destiny, Fate, Kismet, the will of God. Whatever we call it, lives are changed and molded by it, in small or drastic ways beyond our control. The precise, exquisite influence of timing moves people into new positions as surely as a spring flood rearranges the landscape. It is as unavoidable as life.

  Helen Van Slyke

  Spring, Moving, Destiny

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• I've shared the fate of many working mothers; I felt guilty like them.

  Valerie Trierweiler

  Mother, Guilty, Felt

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• I believe in fate. Sometimes that means an old bearded guy sitting on a cloud and pulling the strings; sometimes it means random atoms swirling through a cheerless universe; sometimes it means everything being preordained thanks to your karma credit from your previous lives.

  Kyle MacLachlan

  Karma, Believe, Mean

  "This much I know". Interview with Stuart Husband, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2008.

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• I'm not somebody that thinks about destiny and fate, but I don't walk away from it when something unfolds.

  Angelina Jolie

  Destiny, Thinking, Walks

  "Angelina Jolie: We’re A Very Grounded Home; I’m The Person Who Takes The Kids To Go Poop", www.huffingtonpost.com. January 22, 2013.

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• Music the fiercest grief can charm,
  And fate's severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to ease,
  And make despair and madness please;
  Our joys below it can improve,
  And antedate the bliss above.

  Alexander Pope

  Music, Pain, Grief

  Alexander Pope (1839). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope. Ed. by H.F. Cary, with a biogr. notice of the author”, p.15

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• By a certain fate, great acts, and great eloquence have most commonly gone hand in hand, equalling and honoring each other in the same ages.

  John Milton

  Greatness, Hands, Age

  John Milton (1866). “Treasures from the prose writings of John Milton”, p.389

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• Today the fate of humankind is even more crucially linked than ever before. The boundaries between the problems of 'others' and 'our' problems are being increasingly erased.

  Janez Drnovsek

  Today, Problem, Boundaries

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• Sport is a seductive metaphor (life as a game in which we gain victory through hard work, discipline, and visualizing success). but the older metaphor of farming (life as hard labor that is subject to weather and quirks of blind fate and may return no reward whatsoever and don't be surprised) is still in our blood.

  Garrison Keillor

  Sports, Hard Work, Blood

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• Fate being unfavorable( or without god's grace, even an easy task becomes difficult to accomplish)

  Chanakya

  Political, Grace, Tasks

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• A man or a ruler should always take up a task after thoroughly considering its consequences. Otherwise fate also cannot protect his wealth.

  Chanakya

  Men, Political, Tasks

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• Each one of us must in the end choose for himself how far he would like to leave our collective fate to the wayward vagaries of popular assemblies For myself it would be most irksome to be ruled by a bevy of Platonic Guardians, even if I knew how to choose them, which I assuredly do not I should miss the stimulus of living in a society where I have, at least theoretically, some part in the direction of public affairs.

  Learned Hand

  Missing, Would Be, Affair

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• If what matters in a person's existence is to accept the inevitable consciously, to taste the good and bad to the full and to make for oneself a more individual, unaccidental and inward
  destiny alongside one's external fate, then my life has been neither empty nor worthless.

  Hermann Hesse

  Destiny, What Matters, Inward

  Hermann Hesse (1969). “Gertrude”

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