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“Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, inciting at once to work and rest! Days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God. Nevermore, however weary, should one faint by the way who gains the blessings of one mountain day; whatever his fate, long life, short life, stormy or calm, he is rich forever.”

Source: Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays

“Superiority to Fate Is difficult to gain 'Tis not conferred of Any But possible to earn.”

Difficult Fate Gains Luck Superiority

Book:Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them

Source: Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them

“Shun to seek what is hid in the womb of the morrow, and set down as gain in life's ledger whatever time fate shall have granted thee.”

Fate Gains Granted Thee Womb Morrow

Author:Horace

“Each day that fate adds to your life, put down as so much gain.”

Fate Gains Add Each Day

Author:Horace

“Fools gain greater advantages through their weakness than intelligent men through their strength. We watch a great man struggling against fate and we do not lift a finger to help him. But we patronize a grocer who is headed for bankruptcy.”

Men Helping Watches Struggle Greater Fate Fool Weakness Gains Advantage Intelligent Fingers Lifts Great Men Bankruptcy Intelligent Man Grocers

Author:Honore de Balzac

“Sport is a seductive metaphor (life as a game in which we gain victory through hard work, discipline, and visualizing success). but the older metaphor of farming (life as hard labor that is subject to weather and quirks of blind fate and may return no reward whatsoever and don't be surprised) is still in our blood.”

May Stills Hard Games Sports History Fate Blood Subjects Hard Work Return Victory Discipline Gains Labor Blind Rewards Metaphor Weather Farming Seductive Quirks Visualizing

Author:Garrison Keillor

“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

“Solve the problem yourself or accept a fate you may not like... from this perspective, the ethic of personal responsibility gains appeal.”

May Problem Responsibility Accepting Fate Perspective Ethics Gains Solve Appeals Personal Responsibility

Author:Noel Tichy

“It might be lonelier Without the Loneliness - I’m so accustomed to my Fate - Perhaps the Other - Peace - Would interrupt the Dark - And crowd the little Room - Too scant - by Cubits - to contain The Sacrament - of Him - I am not used to Hope - It might intrude upon - Its sweet parade - blaspheme the place - Ordained to Suffering - It might be easier To fail - with Land in Sight - Than gain - My Blue Peninsula - To perish - of Delight -”

Littles Might Used Suffering Dark Rooms Fate Failing Land Loneliness Sweet Easier Gains Sight Blue Crowds Delight Sacraments Accustomed Parades Peninsulas

Book:Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson

Source: Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson