Fate
What fates impose, that men must needs abide;
It boots not to resist both wind and tide.
SHAKESPEARE: 3 Henry VI., Act iv., Sc. 3.
All human things are subject to decay,
And when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
DRYDEN: MacFlecknoe, Line 1.
Things are where things are, and, as fate has willed,
So shall they be fulfilled.
ROBERT BROWNING: Agamemnon.
And binding Nature fast in fate,
Left free the human will.
POPE: The Universal Prayer, St. 3.
For fate has wove the thread of life with pain,
And twins ev'n from the birth are misery and man!
POPE: Odyssey, Bk. vii., Line 263.
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