"There is no armor against fate."
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"That was the first sound in the song of love! Scarce more than silence is, and yet a sound. Hands of invisible spirits touch the strings Of that mysterious instrument, the soul, And play the prelude of our fate. We hear The voice prophetic, and are not alone."
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"Your education begins where what is called your education is over. Your fate is but the common lot of all."
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"Man is something that shall be overcome.... Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman -- a rope over an abyss... What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end."
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"I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I give you this warning that you may prepare your mind for your fate."
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"Chance generally favors the prudent."
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"Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think."
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"No individual can be in full control of his fate-our strengths come significantly from our history, our experiences largely from the vagaries of chance. But by seizing the opportunity to leverage and frame these experiences, we gain agency over them. And this heightened agency, in turn, places us in a stronger position to deal with future experiences, even as it may alter our own sense of strengths and possibilities."
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"It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools."
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"What can you ever really know of other people's souls — of their temptations, their opportunities, their struggles? One soul in the whole of creation you do know: and it is the only one whose fate is placed in your hands. If there is a God, you are, in a sense, alone with Him."
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"All things are in fate, yet all things are not decreed by fate."
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"Those spacious regions where our fancies roam, Pain'd by the past, expecting ills to come, In some dread moment, by the fates assign'd, Shall pass away, nor leave a rack behind; And Time's revolving wheels shall lose at last The speed that spins the future and the past: And, sovereign of an undisputed throne, Awful eternity shall reign alone."
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"We never know we go when we are going- We jest and shut the Door- Fate-following-behind us bolts it- And we accost no more-."
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"All you need to do is write truly and not care about what the fate of it is."
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"So often among so-called "primitives" one comes across spiritual personalities who immediately inspire respect, as though they were the fully matured products of an undisturbed fate."
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"We make our fortunes and we call them fate."
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"Yet though a man gets many wounds in breast, He dieth not, unless the appointed time, The limit of his life's span, coincide; Nor does the man who by the hearth at home Sits still, escape the doom that Fate decrees."
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"If the fate of the universe was decided in a single moment at the instant of the Big Bang , that was the most creative moment of all."
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"Mr. Rochester, I no more assign this fate to you than I grasp at it for myself. We were born to strive and endure - you as well as I: do so. You will forget me before I forget you."
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"It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals."
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