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With equal pace, impartial Fate Knocks at the palace, as the cottage gate.

With equal pace, impartial Fate Knocks at the palace, as the cottage gate.

Horace
Fate, Cottages, Pace
Horace, Philip Francis (1779). “A Poetical Translation of the Works of Horace: With Notes Collected from His Best Latin and French Commentators”, p.11

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own: he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. Be fair or foul or rain or shine, the joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not Heaven itself upon the past has power, but what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

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Motivation, Rain, Fate

Each day that fate adds to your life, put down as so much gain.

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Fate, Add, Each Day

The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.

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Fall, Fate, Light
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 261-65, Carmina, II. 10. 9, 1922.

Shun to seek what is hid in the womb of the morrow, and set down as gain in life's ledger whatever time fate shall have granted thee.

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Fate, Gains, Granted

Even-handed fate Hath but one law for small and great: That ample urn holds all men's names.

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Fate, Destiny, Men
"Odes and Epodes".

Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.

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Fate, Hands, Names

Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.

Horace
Book, Fate, Live For Today

Little folks become their little fate.

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Fate, Littles, Folks
Horace, Philip Francis (1779). “A Poetical Translation of the Works of Horace: With Notes Collected from His Best Latin and French Commentators”, p.348

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