FATE FAULTS
As said, the old hermit of Prague . . . "That that is, is." </poem>
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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? Horace and James Smith—Rejected Addresses. By Lord Cui Bono. </poem>
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Two shall be born, the whole wide world apart,
And speak in different tongues, and have no
thought
Each of tie other's being; and have no heed;
And these, o'er unknown seas to unknown lands
Shall cross, escaping wreck, defying death;
And, all unconsciously, shape every act to this
one end:
That one day out of darkness they shall meet
And read life's meanings in each other's eyes.
Susan M. Spaulding—Fate. In Wings of
Icarus. (1802) Falsely claimed by G. E.
Edmdndson.
Jacta,alea esto. (Jacta est alea.)
Let the die be cast. y
Suetonius—Caesar. 32. (Caesar, on crossing
the Rubicon.) Quoted as a proverb used
by Caesar in Plutarch—Apophthegms.
Opp. Mar.
From too much love of living,
From hope and fear set free,
We thank with brief thanksgiving
Whatever gods may be
That no life fives forever;
That dead men rise up never;
That even the weariest river
Winds somewhere safe to sea.
Swinburne—Garden of Proserpine.
Sometimes an hour of Fate's serenest weather
Strikes through our changeful sky its coming
beams;
Somewhere above us, in elusive ether,
Waits the fulfilment of our dearest dreams.
Bayard Taylor—Ad Amicos.
Ad restim mihi quidem res rediit planissume.
Nothing indeed remains for me but that I
should hang myself.
Terence—Phormio. IV. 4. 5.
Dare fatis vela.
To give the sails to fate.
Vergil—Æneid. III. 9.
Quo fata trahunt retrahuntque sequamur.
Wherever the fates lead us let us follow.
Vergil—Æneid. V. 709.
Fata viam invenient.
Fate will find a way.
Vergil—Æneid. X. 113.
Perge ; decet. Forsan miseros meliora sequentur.
Persevere: It is fitting, for a better fate
awaits the afflicted.
Vergil—Æneid. XII. 153.
Fata vocant.
The fates call.
Vergil—Georgvx. IV. 496.
I saw him even now going the way of all flesh.
John Webster—WestwardHo. Act II. Sc. 2.
"Ah me! what boots us all our boasted power,
Our golden treasure, and our purple state.
They cannot ward the inevitable hour,
Nor stay the fearful violence of fate."
West—Monody on Queen Caroline.
This day we fashion Destiny, our web of Fate we
spin.
Whither—The Crisis. St. 10.
Blindlings that er bios den Willen des Geschickes.
Man blindly works the will of fate.
WrELAND—Oberon. IV. 59.
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Des Schiksals Zwang ist bitter.
The compulsion of fate is bitter.
Wholand—Oberon. V. 60.
My fearful trust "en vogant la galere." (Come
what may.)
Sir Thomas Wyatt—The Lover Prayeth Venus.
Vogue la galee. See Moijere—Tartuffe.
Act I. Sc. 1. Montaigne—Essays. Bk.
I. Ch. XL. Rabelais—Gargantua. Bk. I.
Ch. XX.
FAULTS
Then farewell, Horace; whom I hated so,
Not for thy faults, but mine.
Byron—Childe Harold. Canto IV. St. 77.
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be
conscious of none.
Carlyle—Heroes and Hero-Worship. Ch. II.
Suus quoque attribute est error:
Sed non videmus, manticae quid in tergo est.
Every one has his faults: but we do not see
the wallet on our own backs.
Catullus—Carmina. XXII. 20.
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| text = <poem>Ea molestissime ferre homines debent quae
ipsorum culpa ferenda sunt.
Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from their own faults.
Cicero—EpistoUe Ad Fratrem. I. 1.
Est proprium stultitiae aliorum vitia cernere,
oblivisci suorum.
It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive
the faults of others, and to forget his own.
Cicero—Tusculanarum Disputatumum. IH
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