Horace Quotes About Fate
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Drop the question of what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that Fate allows you.
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With equal pace, impartial Fate Knocks at the palace, as the cottage gate.
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Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own: he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. 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.
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Each day that fate adds to your life, put down as so much gain.
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Even-handed fate Hath but one law for small and great: That ample urn holds all men's names.
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Shun to seek what is hid in the womb of the morrow, and set down as gain in life's ledger whatever time fate shall have granted thee.
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Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
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The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.
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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.
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Little folks become their little fate.
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