FATE
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Resolved to take Fate by the throat and shake a living out of her.—LOUISA M. ALCOTT, Life, Letters & Journals
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We, in some unknown Power's employ,
Move on a rigorous line;
Can neither, when we will, enjoy;
Nor, when we will, resign.—MATTHEW ARNOLD
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Night and the curtains drawn
The household still
Fate with appointed strength
Hath worked its will.—HELEN GRANVILLE-BARKER, Night and the Curtains Drawn
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It's odd to think we might have been
Sun, moon and stars unto each other—
Only, I turned down one little street
As you went up another.—FANNY H. LEA, Fate
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Oh, busy weaver! Unseen weaver! pause! one word! whither flows the fabric? What palace may it deck? Wherefore all these ceaseless toilings? Speak, weaver! Stay thy hand! But one single word with thee! Nay—the shuttle flies—the figures float from forth the loom; the freshet—rushing carpet forever slides away.—HERMAN MELVILLE, Moby Dick
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Our hour is marked, and no one can claim a moment of life beyond what fate has predestined.—NAPOLEON
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Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate,
All but the page prescrib'd, their present state.—POPE, Essay on Man
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Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.—SCOTT, Count Robert of Paris
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Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie,
Which we ascribe to Heaven.—SHAKESPEARE, All's Well that Ends Well
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There's a divinity that shapes our ends
Rough-hew them how we will.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
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What fates impose, that men must needs abide;
It boots not to resist both wind and tide.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry VI
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Men at some time are masters of their fates:
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.—SHAKESPEARE, Julius Caesar
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I'll make assurance doubly sure,
And take a bond of fate.—SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth
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A pair of star-cross'd lovers.—SHAKESPEARE, Romeo and Juliet
For man is man and master of his fate.—TENNYSON, Idylls of the King
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