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Fate Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, roll darkly down the torrent of his fate.
- Few have abilities so much needed by the rest of the world as to be caressed on their own terms; and he that will not…
- Exercise cannot secure us from that dissolution to which we are decreed; but while the soul and body continue united, it can make the association…
- Of all the griefs that harass the distress'd, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest; Fate never wounds more deep the generous heart, Than…
- London! the needy villain's general home, The common sewer of Paris and of Rome! With eager thirst, by folly or by fate, Sucks in the…
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
- 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
- I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and… — John Adams
- The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate! — Robert Browning
- Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors, concern for the great unsolved… — Albert Einstein
- A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul. — Ralph Waldo Emerson