Fate

Famous quotes containing the word fate:

    “Ev’n thou who mourn’st the Daisy’s fate,
    That fate is thine—no distant date;
    Stern Ruin’s ploughshare drives , elate,
    Full on thy bloom,
    Till crush’d beneath the furrow’s weight,
    Shall be thy doom.”
    —Robert Burns (1759–1796)

    “Such is the fate of simple Bard,
    On life’s rough ocean luckless starr’d:”
    —Robert Burns (1759–1796)

    “It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.”
    —Margaret Oliphant (1828–1897)