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“Many are poets, but without the name;For what is Poesy but to createFrom overfeeling Good or Ill; and aimAt an external life beyond our fate,And be the new Prometheus of new men,Bestowing fire from Heaven, and then, too late,Finding the pleasure given repaid with pain”

Men Pain Names Given Heaven Pleasure Fire Fate Poet Findings Late Ill Feel Good Too Late Prometheus

Author:Lord Byron

“We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.”

World Want Given Friendship Fate Masters Cooperation

Author:Golda Meir

“Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself. He is humiliated by his simian ancestry, and tries to deny his animal nature, to persuade himself that he is not limited by its weaknesses nor concerned in its fate. And this impulse may be harmless, when it is genuine. But what are we to say when we see the formulas of heroic self-deception made use of by unheroic self-indulgence?”

“Our life is determined for us--and it makes the mind very free when we give up wishing, and only think of bearing what is laid upon us, and doing what is given us to do.”

Thinking Giving Mind Life Is Given Wish Our Lives Fate Giving Up Determined

Author:George Eliot

“The monk, the inquisitor, and the Jesuit were lords of Spain,- sovereigns of her sovereign, for they had formed the dark and narrow mind of that tyrannical recluse. They had formed the minds of her people, quenched in blood every spark of rising heresy, and given over a noble nation to a bigotry blind and inexorable as the doom of fate. Linked with pride, ambition, avarice, every passion of a rich, strong nature, potent for good and ill, it made the Spaniard of that day a scourge as dire as ever fell on man.”

Source: The Works of Francis Parkman

“Men make their own history; but they make it under given conditions, and they become entangled thereby in a fate which is in part the result of other men having made their own history earlier.”

Men Made Given Results Fate Conditions

Book:Force, Fate, and Freedom: On Historical Sociology

Source: Force, Fate, and Freedom: On Historical Sociology

“Devotion is the realization that wealth, education and power are God given gifts and not the endowments of fate.”

Given Wealth Fate Devotion Realization Endowment

Author:Pandurang Shastri Athavale

“A knowledge of history as detailed as possible is essential if we are to comprehend the present and be prepared for the future. Fate...is not the blind superstition or helplessness that waits stupidly for what may happen. Fate is unalterable only in the sense that given a cause, a certain result must follow, but no cause is inevitable in itself, and man can shape his world if he does not resign himself to ignorance.”

Source: My Several Worlds: A Personal Record

“Truth is the one thing in nature always consistent with itself, and it is the one guide given to us in steering on the ocean of fate.”

Given Fate One Thing Truth Is Ocean Guides Consistent Steering

Author:Arthur Alfred Lynch

“In seeking to avoid evil, humanity is responsible for bringing more evil into the world than organisms could ever do merely by exercising their digestive tracts. It is our ingenuity, rather than our animal nature, that has given our fellow creatures such a bitter earthly fate.”

World Humanity Evil Given Animal Fate Exercise Creatures Responsible Fellows Seeking Bitter Organisms Ingenuity

Author:Ernest Becker

“It is hard work to control the workings of inclination and turn the bent of nature; but that it may be done, I know from experience. God has given us, in a measure, the power to make our own fate.”

Knows May Hard Done Turns Given Fate Hard Work Bent Inclination

Book:Jane Eyre

Source: Jane Eyre

“The nature will continue, it's our existence that is finite and you are given this gift of life and you make your way with it, but fate and natural disasters will continue on.”

Way Given Natural Existence Fate Disaster Finite Natural Disaster Gifts Of Life

Author:Larry Fessenden