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“Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.”

Hands Turns Names Fate Mankind Lows Doom Shaking Highs And Lows

Author:Horace

“It is the fate of every great achievement to be pounced upon by pedants and imitators who drain it of life and turn it into an orthodoxy which stifles all stirrings of originality.”

Turns Fate Achievement Originality Orthodoxy Drains Stirring Great Achievement Imitator Pedants

Book:Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“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

“Two diverse gates there are of bodiless dreams, These of sawn ivory, and those of horn. Such dreams as issue where the ivory gleams Fly without fate, and turn our hopes to scorn. But dreams which issue through the burnished horn, What man soe'er beholds them on his bed, These work with virtue and of truth are born.”

Men Two Dream Turns Born Virtue Issues Fate Bed Gates Diverse Scorn Horns Gleam Ivory

Book:Delphi Poetry Anthology: The World's Greatest Poems

Source: Delphi Poetry Anthology: The World's Greatest Poems

“And sing to those that hold the vital shears; And turn the adamantine spindle round, On which the fate of gods and men is wound.”

Men Turns Fate Rounds Wounds Shears

Book:The Poetical Works of John Milton

Source: The Poetical Works of John Milton

“It is an awful thing to get a glimpse, as one sometimes does, when the time is past, of some little, little wheel which works the whole mighty machinery of fate, and see how our destinies turn on a minute's delay or advance.”

Littles Doe Sometimes Whole Past Turns Destiny Fate Minutes Awful Wheels Delay Glimpse Machinery Our Destiny Turn-on

Book:Catherine. Little travels The Fitz-Boodle papers, etc. etc

Source: Catherine. Little travels The Fitz-Boodle papers, etc. etc

“The turn of a sentence has decided the fate of many a friendship, and, for aught that we know, the fate of many a kingdom.”

Knows Turns Fate Decided Sentences Kingdoms

Author:Jeremy Bentham

“I knock unbidden once at every gate-- If sleeping, wake--if feasting, rise before I turn away--it is the hour of fate, And they who follow me reach every state Mortals desire, and conquer every foe Save death, but those who doubt of hesitate, Condemned to failure, penury and woe, Seek me in vain and uselessly implore, I answer not, and I return no more.”

Ifs States Desire Turns Opportunity Hours Sleep Answers Doubt Fate Return Mortals Conquer Vain Gates Woe Foe Follow Me Feasting Opportunity Knocking

Author:John James Ingalls

“Come hither, all ye empty things, Ye bubbles rais'd by breath of Kings; Who float upon the tide of state, Come hither, and behold your fate. Let pride be taught by this rebuke, How very mean a thing's a Duke; From all his ill-got honours flung, Turn'd to that dirt from whence he sprung.”

Mean States Turns Fate Taught Pride Kings Empty Breaths Ill Honour Bubbles Tides Dirt Floats Dukes Sprung Rebuke Very Mean

Book:The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift...

Source: The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift...

“Let us imagine a number of men in chains and all condemned to death, where some are killed each day in the sight of the others, and those who remain see their own fate in that of their fellows and wait their turn, looking at each other sorrowfully and without hope. It is an image of the condition of man.”

Men Death Turns Waiting Numbers Fate Imagine Conditions Sight Fellows Chains Each Day Without Hope

Book:Pascal's Pensees

Source: Pascal's Pensees