Fate

"Earth loves to gibber o'er her dross, Her golden souls, to waste; The cup she fills for her god-men Is a bitter cup to taste."

"For him who fain would teach the world The world holds hate in fee— For Socrates, the hemlock cup; For Christ, Gethsemane."

"He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch To gain or lose it all."

"Nullo fata loco possis excludere."

"All the great things of life are swiftly done, Creation, death, and love the double gate. However much we dawdle in the sun We have to hurry at the touch of Fate."

"And sing to those that hold the vital shears; And turn the adamantine spindle round, On which the fate of gods and men is wound."

"Fixed, fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute."

"Necessity and chance Approach not me, and what I will is fate."

"The Moving Finger writes; and having writ, Moves on; nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it."

"Big with the fate of Rome."

"Geminos, horoscope, varo Producis genio."

""Thou shalt see me at Philippi," was the remark of the spectre which appeared to Brutus in his tent at Abydos [B.C. 42]. Brutus answered boldly: "I will meet thee there." At Philippi the spectre reappeared, and Brutus, after being defeated, died upon his own sword."

"But blind to former as to future fate, What mortal knows his pre-existent state?"

"Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate."

"A brave man struggling in the storms of fate."

"As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come."

"He putteth down one and setteth up another."

"Fate sits on these dark battlements, and frowns; And as the portals open to receive me, Her voice, in sullen echoes, through the courts, Tells of a nameless deed."

"Sæpe calamitas solatium est nosse sortem suam."

"Der Zug des Herzens ist des Schicksals Stimme."

"Mach deine Rechnung mit dem Himmel, Vogt! Fort musst du, deine Uhr ist abgelaufen."

"Fata volentem ducunt, nolentem trahunt."

"Multi ad fatum Venere suum dum fata timent."

"Nemo fit fato nocens."

"Yet what are they, the learned and the great? Awhile of longer wonderment the theme! Who shall presume to prophesy their date, Where nought is certain save the uncertainty of fate?"

"Two shall be born, the whole wide world apart, And speak in different tongues, and have no thought Each of the other's being; and have no heed; And these, o'er unknown seas to unknown lands Shall cross, escaping wreck, defying death; And, all unconsciously, shape every act to this one end: That one day out of darkness they shall meet And read life's meanings in each other's eyes."

"Jacta alea esto. (Jacta est alea.)"

"From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives forever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea."

"Sometimes an hour of Fate's serenest weather Strikes through our changeful sky its coming beams; Somewhere above us, in elusive ether, Waits the fulfilment of our dearest dreams."

"Ad restim mihi quidem res rediit planissume."

"Dare fatis vela."

"Quo fata trahunt retrahuntque sequamur."

"Fata viam invenient."

"Perge; decet. Forsan miseros meliora sequentur."

"Fata vocant."

"I saw him even now going the way of all flesh."

"Ah me! what boots us all our boasted power, Our golden treasure, and our purple state. They cannot ward the inevitable hour, Nor stay the fearful violence of fate."

"This day we fashion Destiny, our web of Fate we spin."

"Blindlings that er blos den Willen des Geschickes."

"Des Schiksals Zwang ist bjtter."

"My fearful trust "en vogant la galère." (Come what may.)"