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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

“I feel like my mum is in heaven sharing a cup of tea with Lady Fate and plotting my life out like a chess game.”

Feels Games Heaven Fate Chess Cups Tea Mum Cups Of Tea Chess Game

Author:Jenny Frost

“Virtue, the strength and beauty of the soul, Is the best gift of Heaven: a happiness That even above the smiles and frowns of fate Exalts great Nature's favourites: a wealth That ne'er encumbers, nor can be transferr'd.”

Soul Heaven Wealth Virtue Fate Best Gift Strength And Beauty

Book:John Armstrong's The Art of Preserving Health: Eighteenth-century Sensibility in Practice

Source: John Armstrong's The Art of Preserving Health: Eighteenth-century Sensibility in Practice

“These great turning-days of life cast no shadow before, slip by unconsciously. Only a trifle, a little turn of the rudder, and the ship goes to heaven or hell.”

Littles Turns Heaven Hell Fate Shadow Casts Ships Unconscious Slips Trifles Rudders Heaven Or Hell

Book:Life in the Iron-Mills

Source: Life in the Iron-Mills

“Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.”

Has Beens Past Joy Heaven Hours Fate Mines Rain Fairs Shining Spite Possessed Foul Rain Or Shine

Book:The works of John Dryden: now first collected in eighteen volumes. Illustrated with notes, historical, critical, and explanatory, and a life of the author

Source: The works of John Dryden: now first collected in eighteen volumes. Illustrated with notes, historical, critical, and explanatory, and a life of the author

“Whoever yields properly to Fate, is deemed Wise among men, and knows the laws of heaven.”

Knows Men Law Heaven Wise Fate Yield

Author:Euripides

“For we by conquest, of our soveraine might,And by eternall doome of Fate's decree,Have wonne the Empire of the Heavens bright.”

Might Heaven Fate Empires Conquest Decree

Book:THE FAERIE QUEENE.

Source: THE FAERIE QUEENE.

“It was from America that the plain ideas that men ought to mind their business, and that the nation is responsible to Heaven for the acts of the State, - ideas long locked in the breast of solitary thinkers, and hidden among Latin folios, - burst forth like a conqueror upon the world they were destined to transform, under the title of the Rights of Man... and the principle gained ground, that a nation can never abandon its fate to an authority it cannot control.”

Men World Mind Long Ideas States America Heaven Nations Principles Fate Rights Ought Authority Responsible Titles Breasts Abandon Latin Thinker Locked Solitary Destined Conqueror

Author:Lord Acton

“The sage says that all that is under heaven incurs the same law and the same fate.”

Law Heaven Fate Sage

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“Fate is what Heaven imparts.”

Heaven Fate Impart

Author:Dagobert D. Runes

“I think some orator commenting upon that fate said that though the winds of heaven might whistle around an Englishman's cottage, the King of England could not.”

Thinking Said Home Might Heaven Fate Wind Kings England Englishmen Cottages Orators

Author:John James Ingalls

“O heaven! that one might read the book of fate, and see the revolution of the times.”

Book Might Heaven Fate Revolution Future

Author:William Shakespeare

“Heaven forbids that man should know What change tomorrow's fate may bring.”

Knows Men Should May Heaven Fate Tomorrow

Author:Statius

“What, after all, is heaven, but a transition from dim guesses and blind struggling with a mysterious and adverse fate to the fullness of all wisdom--from ignorance, in a word, to knowledge, but knowledge of what order?”

Order Heaven Struggle Fate Ignorance Blind Mysterious Transition Fullness Adverse

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileg'd beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven.”

Men Life Heaven Walks Common Fate Good Man Virtuous Chamber Verge Virtuous Life

Book:The poetical works of Edward Young

Source: The poetical works of Edward Young