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“Thou two-faced year, Mother of Change and Fate...”

Years Two Mother History Fate

Book:The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume II: Jewish Poems and Translations

Source: The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume II: Jewish Poems and Translations

“If people like to read their books, it is all very well, but to be at so much trouble in filling great volumes, which, as I used to think, nobody would willingly ever look into, to be labouring only for the torment of little boys and girls, always struck me as a hard fate.”

People Ifs Thinking Wells Looks Littles Book Hard Used Girl Education Boys History Fate Trouble Volume Torment Filling Little Boys Boy And Girl

Book:Jane Austen: The Works in Eight Volumes

Source: Jane Austen: The Works in Eight Volumes

“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

“The Battle of Waterloo is a work of art with tension and drama with its unceasing change from hope to fear and back again, changewhich suddenly dissolves into a moment of extreme catastrophe, a model tragedy because the fate of Europe was determined within this individual fate.”

Art Moments Individual History Fate Drama Battle Models Europe Tragedy Extremes Determined Tension Works Of Art Catastrophe Back Again Waterloo

Author:Stefan Zweig

“A battle sometimes decides everything; and sometimes the most trifling thing decides the fate of a battle.”

Sometimes History Fate Battle Trifling

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.”

World Made History Fate Changed Gold Lips Curves Ivory

Book:The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde

Source: The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde

“We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.”

People Made Culture Language Destiny History Fate South Tied Our Destiny Tied Up

Author:Mangosuthu Buthelezi

“I never could believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden.”

Men World Believe Politics Belief Justice History Millions Fate Ready Diversity Social Justice Providence

Author:Richard Rumbold

“We cannot bear to regard ourselves simply as playthings of blind chance, we cannot admit to feeling ourselves abandoned.”

Art Philosophy Feelings Chance History Fate Bears Regard Blind Abandoned

Book:Three plays on justice: Landslide. Struggle till dawn. The fugitive

Source: Three plays on justice: Landslide. Struggle till dawn. The fugitive