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We do not what we ought; What we ought not, we do; And lean upon the thought That chance will bring us through; But our own acts, for good or ill, are mightier powers.

Matthew Arnold
Chance, Ill, Ought
Matthew Arnold (1869). “Poems: Dramatic and lyric poems”, p.24
We do not what we ought; What we ought not, we do; And lean upon the thought That chance will bring us through; But our own acts, for good or ill, are mightier powers.