Enlarge not thy destiny, said the oracle endeavor not to do more than is given thee in charge.
Enlarge not thy destiny, said the oracle endeavor not to do more than is given thee in charge.
We are parlor soldiers. The rugged battle of fate, where strength is born, we shun.
They who talk much of destiny, their birth-star, etc., are in a lower dangerous plane, and invite the evils they fear.
Government has come to be a trade, and is managed solely on commercial principles. A man plunges into politics to make his fortune, and only cares that the world shall last his days.
Whatever limits us, we call Fate.
Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.
Here is a day now before me A day is a fortune and an estate who loses a day loses life.
A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.
Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
Go face the fire at sea, or the cholera in your friend's house, or the burglar in your own, or what danger lies in the way of duty, knowing you are guarded by the cherubim of Destiny. If you believe in Fate to your harm, believe it, at least, for your good.
Good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.
To-morrow, when the masks shall fall
That dizen nature's carnival,
The pure shall see, by their own will,
Which overflowing love shall fill,-
'Tis not within the force of Fate
The fate-conjoined to separate.
Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances it was somebody's name, or he happened to be there at right time, or it was so then, and another day it would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
All successful men have agreed in one thing, --they were causationists. They believed that things went not by luck, but by law that there was not a weak or a cracked link in the chain that joins the first and last of things.
We may be partial, but Fate is not.
Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought for causes which are unpenetrated.
Shallow men believe in luck, wise and strong men in cause and effect.
We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other. Our age yields no great and perfect persons.
If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your good.
Shallow people believe in luck and in circumstances Strong people believe in cause and effect.
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
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