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Thy fate is the common fate of all;
Into each life some rain must fall.
(Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), U.S. poet. The Rainy Day, st. 3, Ballads and Other Poems (1842).)
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A man's character is his fate.
(Heraclitus (c. 535-c. 475 BC), Greek philosopher. On The Universe, fragment 121, trans. by W.H.S. Jones.)
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Thought enables us to see Fate coming.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Third Selection, New York (1986).)
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It is the fault of fate.
(Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880), French novelist. Charles, in Madame Bovary (1856).
On Emma's suicide.)
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Such is the fate of simple Bard,
On life's rough ocean luckless starr'd:
(Robert Burns (1759-1796), Scottish poet. To a Mountain Daisy (l. 37-38). . .
World's Best Loved Poems, The. James Gilchrist Lawson, comp. (1927) Harper & Row.)
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Who can control his fate?
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Othello, in Othello, act 5, sc. 2, l. 265.)
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The powerless worship Luck and Fate.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Second Selection, New York (1985).)
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So I will not go on shouting as once I did: Fate, Fate! It's no use revering it merely as Fate, we must look at it, grasp it, and destroy it.
(Alfred Döblin (1878-1957), German-Jewish novelist, physician. Trans. by Eugene Jolas. Alexanderplatz, Berlin, bk. 9 (1929).)
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All human things are subject to decay,
And when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
(John Dryden (1631-1700), British poet, dramatist, critic. Mac Flecknoe, l. 1-2 (1682).)
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My fate cries out,
And makes each petty artery in this body
As hardy as the Nemean lion's nerve.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Hamlet, in Hamlet, act 1, sc. 4, l. 81-3.
Desperately trying, against his companions' persuasion, to follow his father's ghost; "Nemean lion"Mslain by Hercules as one of his twelve labors; "nerve" means sinew.)
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