Fate

Famous quotes containing the word fate:

    “But every jet of chaos which threatens to exterminate us is convertible by intellect into wholesome force. Fate is unpenetrated causes.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “My fate cries out,
    And makes each petty artery in this body
    As hardy as the Nemean lion’s nerve.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “What generous beliefs console
    The brave whom Fate denies the goal!
    If others reach it, is content:
    To Heaven’s high will his will is bent.
    Firm on his heart relied,
    What lot soe’er betide,
    Work of his hand
    He nor repents nor grieves,
    Pleads for itself the fact,
    As unrepenting Nature leaves
    Her every act.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)