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Fate Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- I saw a delicate flower had grown up two feet high between the horses' feet and the wheel trach. An inch more to the right…
- Trench says a wild man is a willed man. Well, then, a man of will who does what he wills or wishes, a man of…
- It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.
- The better part of the man is soon ploughed into the soil for compost. By a seeming fate, commonly called necessity, they are employed, as…
- Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
- See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and prisoner of his…
- On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that…
- Public opinion is a weak tyrant, compared with our private opinion - what a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates…
More Fate Quotes
- Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. — Mary Kay Ash
- Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with… — Marcus Aurelius
- Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has… — Marcus Aurelius
- Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time. — Marcus Aurelius
- Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be. — Marcus Aurelius
- Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall. — Francis Bacon
- Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood! — Honore de Balzac
- The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate,… — John Adams
- I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and… — John Adams
- I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me. — Ludwig van Beethoven
- God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to… — Alfred Adler
- Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have… — Ingrid Bergman