“But now our fate from unmomentous things, may rise like rivers out of little springs.”
“There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.”
“Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.”
“It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.”
“Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.”
“The wheel goes round and round, some are up and some are on the down, and still the wheel goes round.”
“Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.”
“The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, ''I shall today be uppermost.''”
“Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on.”
“Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.”
“I do not know beneath what sky nor on what seas shall be thy fate; I only know it shall be high, I only know it shall be great.”
“The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.”
“Sail on ship of state, sail on, I union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, with all its hopes of future years, is hanging on thy fate!”
“Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before!”
“There is tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries; on such a full sea we are now afloat; and we must take the current the clouds folding and unfolding beyond the horizon. when it serves, or lose our ventures.”
“The men and woman who make the best boon companions seem to have given up hope of doing something else...some defect of talent or opportunity has cut them off from their pet ambition and has thus left them with leisure to take an interest in their lives of others. Your ambition may be, it makes him keep his thoughts at home. But the heartbroken people -- if I may use the word in a mild, benevolent sense -- the people whose wills are subdued to fate, give us consolation, recognition, and welcome.”