James Russell Lowell Quotes About Fate
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The purely Great Whose soul no siren passion could unsphere, Thou nameless, now a power and mixed with fate.
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Life seems a jest of Fate's contriving.
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Who is it needs such flawless shafts as fate? What archer of his arrows is so choice, or hits the white so surely?
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Fate loves the fearless.
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In life's small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained; Know'st thou when Fate Thy measure takes, or when she'll say to thee, "I find thee worthy; do this deed for me?"
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Granting our wish is one of Fate's saddest jokes.
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The wisest man could ask no more of fate Than to be simple, modest, manly, true, Safe from the many, honored by the few; Nothing to court in Church, or World, or State, But inwardly in secret to be great.
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Fate loves best such syllables as are sweet and sonorous on the tongue.
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