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“The iron hand of necessity commands, and her stern decree is supreme law, to which the gods even must submit. In deep silence rules the uncounselled sister of eternal fate. Whatever she lays upon thee, endure; perform whatever she commands.”

Hands Law Silence Fate Eternal Lays Endure Supreme Command Thee Iron Submit Decree

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Come near, that no more blinded by man's fate, I find under the boughs of love and hate, In all poor foolish things that live a day, Eternal beauty wandering on her way.”

Men Way Hate Poor Fate Eternal Foolish Wander Blinded Love And Hate Eternal Beauty

Book:When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales

Source: When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales

“Thou fool, what is sleep but the image of death? Fate will give an eternal rest. [Lat., Stulte, quid est somnus, gelidae nisi mortis imago? Longa quiescendi tempora fata dabunt.]”

Giving Death Sleep Fate Fool Eternal

Author:Ovid

“Will any one, save the most bigoted, contend, that it is not certain gain to humanity to spread unbelief in the terrible doctrine that eternal torment is the probable fate of the great majority of the human family?”

Humans Certain Humanity Fate Atheism Terrible Eternal Gains Majority Spread Positive Atheism Doctrine Torment Unbelief Human Family

Book:Theological Essays

Source: Theological Essays

“Whoever has known the love of God loves the whole world and never murmurs against his fate, for the burden of sorrow for the sake of God gains eternal joy.”

World Inspirational Whole Christian Joy Religious Known Fate Sorrow Eternal Gains Sake Burden Whole World God Love Orthodox

Author:Silouan the Athonite

“I will insist the Hebrews have [contributed] more to civilize men than any other nation. If I was an atheist and believed in blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations. They are the most glorious nation that ever inhabited this Earth. The Romans and their empire were but a bubble in comparison to the Jews. They have given religion to three-quarters of the globe and have influenced the affairs of mankind more and more happily than any other nation, ancient or modern.”

“Some people believe that everyone will experience judgment day. But it's my understanding that the Judgment Day or Rapture that I'm going to experience, as a nonbeliever, is not going to be the good part. That's the essential difference between the Singularity and what we're usually told about the fate of our eternal souls.”

People Believe Soul Understanding Differences Fate Essentials Judgment Eternal Rapture Singularity Judgment Day

Author:Ron Currie Jr.

“The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.”

Ifs Men Should Believe Stills Done Nations Fate Atheism Essentials Eternal Instruments Blind Atheist Jew Judaism Hebrew Hands Tied

Book:The Works of John Adams Vol. 9: Letters and State Papers 1799 - 1811

Source: The Works of John Adams Vol. 9: Letters and State Papers 1799 - 1811

“I don't think anyone is qualified to answer questions of eternal fate definitively, much less pinpoint it to a given day.”

Thinking Given Answers Fate Eternal Qualified

Author:Jon Meacham

“In the first place, you shouldn't believe in promises. The world is full of them: the promises of riches, of eternal salvation, of infinite love. Some people think they can promise anything, others accept whatever seems to guarantee better days ahead, as, I suspect is your case. Those who make promises they don't keep end up powerless and frustrated, and exactly the fate awaits those who believe promises.”

Source: The Devil and Miss Prym: A Novel of Temptation

“A philosopher is a lover of wisdom, not of knowledge, which for all its great uses ultimately suffers from the crippling effect of ephemerality. All knowledge is transient, linked to the world around it and subject to change as the world changes, whereas wisdom, true wisdom is eternal, immutable. To be philosophical one must love wisdom for its own sake, accept its permanent validity and yet its perpetual irrelevance. It is the fate of the wise to understand the process of history and yet never to shape it.”

“Why, I hold fate Clasped in my fist, and could command the course Of time's eternal motion, hadst thou been One thought more steady than an ebbing sea.”

Time Courses Fate Sea Eternal Command Steady Fists

Author:John Ford

“It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become prey to the active. The conditions upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt.”

Ifs Men Given Common Liberty Break Fate Rights Conditions Crime Eternal Empathy Consequence Guilt Active Punishment Apathy Prey Servitude Vigilance Eternal Vigilance Price Of Freedom

Author:John Philpot Curran