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The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day, The great, the important day, big with the fate Of Cato, and of Rome.

The bow is bent, the arrow flies, The winged shaft of fate.

No power or virtue of man could ever have deserved that what has been fated should not have taken place.

Yet who shall shut out Fate?

The heart is its own Fate.

Let those deplore their doom, Whose hope still grovels in this dark sojourn: But lofty souls, who look beyond the tomb, Can smile at Fate, and wonder how they mourn.

Yet what are they, the learned and the great? Awhile of longer wonderment the theme! Who shall presume to prophesy their date, Where nought is certain save the uncertainty of fate? - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher,

As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come.

But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

Many things happen between the cup and the lip.

Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be; why then should we desire to be deceived?

Success, the mark no mortal wit, Or surest hand, can always hit: For whatsoe'er we perpetrate, We do but row, we're steer'd by Fate, Which in success oft disinherits, For spurious causes, noblest merits.

Here's a sigh to those who love me, And a smile to those who hate; And whatever sky's above me, Here's a heart for every fate.

To bear is to conquer our fate.

The wine is poured, you should drink it.

They are raised on high that they may be dashed to pieces with a greater fall.

Fate steals along with silent tread, Found oftenest in what least we dread; Frowns in the storm with angry brow, But in the sunshine strikes the blow.

He has gone to the demnition bow-wows.

Rowe's Rule: the odds are five to six that the light at the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an oncoming train.