Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes about Fate

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Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.

Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Fate, Chance, Turns

There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Inspirational, Philosophy, Fate

Fate! There is no fate. Between the thought and the success God is the only agent. Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Fate, Agents, Providence

In the lexicon of youth which fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word as fail.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Failure, Fate, Lexicon

Richelieu act 2, sc. 2 (1839)

Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Fate, Providence, Servant

Fate laughs at probabilities.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Funny, Humorous, Fate

"Eugene Aram". Book by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Book i, Chapter x, 1832.

Fate whirls on the bark, and the rough gale sweeps from the rising tide the lazy calm of thought.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Fate, Lazy, Rising

What, after all, is heaven, but a transition from dim guesses and blind struggling with a mysterious and adverse fate to the fullness of all wisdom--from ignorance, in a word, to knowledge, but knowledge of what order?

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Struggle, Ignorance, Fate