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"Nature has a surer plan than mortals can devise."

Janet Morris, Chris Morris

Fate, Passion, Nature, Destiny, Reproduction
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Accept fate, and move on. Don't yield to the seductive pull of self-pity. Acting like a victim threatens your future.

Fate
3

All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.

John Dryden

Fate
4

"As goes love so goes life."

Aberjhani

Love, Angels, Fate, Gratitude, Spirituality, Inspiration, Grace
5

Chance generally favors the prudent.

Joseph Joubert

Fate
6

Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Fate
7

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

Voltaire

Fate
8

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.

Ovid

Fate
9

Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.

Confucius

Fate
10

Destiny has two ways of crushing us -- by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Fate
11

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

Marcus Aurelius

Fate
12

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

Elizabeth Bowen

Fate
13

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fate
14

Fate keeps on happening.

Anita Loos

Fate
15

Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.

Plutarch

Fate
16

Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.

Seneca the Younger

Fate
17

Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order.

Seneca the Younger

Fate
18

Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

Francis Bacon

Fate
19

Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

Fate
20

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.

Thomas Mann

Fate
21

If cities have souls, Sanctuary's was troubled long before Tempus got here, and will be troubled long after he and his are gone.

Janet Morris, Chris Morris

Fate, Destiny
22

If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fate
23

Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.

Francis Bacon

Fate
24

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves; we are underlings.

William Shakespeare

Fate
25

It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Fate
26

Men at sometime are the masters of their fate.

William Shakespeare

Fate
27

One must either be the hammer or the anvil.

Fate
28

Our fate, whatever it is to be, will be overcome by patience under it.

Virgil

Fate
29

Sail on ship of state, sail on, I union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, with all its hopes of future years, is hanging on thy fate!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Fate
30

Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before!

John Dryden

Fate
31

Tempted fate will leave the loftiest star.

George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron

Fate
32

The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling.

Seneca the Younger

Fate
33

The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

Molière

Fate
34

The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.

Horace

Fate
35

The men and woman who make the best boon companions seem to have given up hope of doing something else...some defect of talent or opportunity has cut them off from their pet ambition and has thus left them with leisure to take an interest in their lives of others. Your ambition may be, it makes him keep his thoughts at home. But the heartbroken people -- if I may use the word in a mild, benevolent sense -- the people whose wills are subdued to fate, give us consolation, recognition, and welcome.

John Jay Chapman

Fate
36

The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, I shall today be uppermost.

Confucius

Fate
37

There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Fate
38

There is tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries; on such a full sea we are now afloat; and we must take the current the clouds folding and unfolding beyond the horizon. when it serves, or lose our ventures.

William Shakespeare

Fate
39

Throw a lucky man into the sea, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth.

Fate
40

We make our fortunes and we call them fate.

Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield

Fate
41

Whatever limits us we call fate.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fate
42

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

Marcus Aurelius

Fate
43

When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.

Carl Jung

Fate
44

Wherever the fates lead us let us follow.

Virgil

Fate
45

“This is for you. A mage named Randal told me to give it to the Band if you ever came back. ‘It surmounts evil,’ he told me, ‘keeps doom at bay.’”

Janet Morris, Chris Morris

Magic, Fate, Curses, Numinosity, Doom, Sorcery
46

“Why is it we are always the targets of the angry Fates? Twice as many men of ours met harm as did theirs, since we’ve come here.”

Janet Morris, Chris Morris

Risk, Fate, Luck, Loyalty

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"Nature has a surer plan than mortals can devise."

Accept fate, and move on. Don't yield to the seductive pull of self-pity. Acting like a victim threatens your future.

All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.

"As goes love so goes life."

Chance generally favors the prudent.

Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.

Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us -- by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

Fate keeps on happening.

Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.

Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.

Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order.

Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.

If cities have souls, Sanctuary's was troubled long before Tempus got here, and will be troubled long after he and his are gone.

If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your good.

Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves; we are underlings.

It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

Men at sometime are the masters of their fate.

One must either be the hammer or the anvil.

Our fate, whatever it is to be, will be overcome by patience under it.

Sail on ship of state, sail on, I union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, with all its hopes of future years, is hanging on thy fate!

Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before!

Tempted fate will leave the loftiest star.

The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling.

The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.

The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, I shall today be uppermost.

There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.

Throw a lucky man into the sea, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth.

We make our fortunes and we call them fate.

Whatever limits us we call fate.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.

Wherever the fates lead us let us follow.

“This is for you. A mage named Randal told me to give it to the Band if you ever came back. ‘It surmounts evil,’ he told me, ‘keeps doom at bay.’”

“Why is it we are always the targets of the angry Fates? Twice as many men of ours met harm as did theirs, since we’ve come here.”