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El Oranz, truly for some men, nothing is written unless they write it.
... fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.
Fate is unalterable only in the sense that given a cause, a certain result must follow, but no cause is inevitable in itself, and ...
Ev'n thou who mourn'st the Daisy's fate,
That fate is thine--no distant date;
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Providence itself could not be more absolutely improvident.
They are a sort of post-house,where the Fates
Change horses, making history change its tune,
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Secret fates
Guide our states
Both in mirth and mourning.
There are in life such confluences of circumstances that render the reproach that we are not Voltaires most inopportune.
Fortuna likes to find a crowd and follow it.
Fortuna smiles and frowns according to a timetable surprising even to herself.
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