"There is no chance, no destiny, no fate,Can circumvent or hinder or controlThe firm resolve of a determined soul.Gifts count for nothing; will alone is great;All things give way before it soon or late.What obstacle can stay the mighty forceOf the sea seeking river in its course,Or cause the ascending orb of day to wait?"

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#Fate Quotes #Destiny Quotes #Rivers Quotes

“Being tired isn't the same as being rich, but most times it's close enough.”
“I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.”
“A trader is a man who earns what he gets and does not give or take the undeserved.”
“Science, unguided by a higher abstract principle, freely hands over its secrets to a vastly developed and commercially inspired technology, and the latter, even less restrained by a supreme culture saving principle, with the means of science creates all the instruments of power demanded from it by the organization of Might.”
“Preaching Christianity to skeptics without first setting out the praeambula fidei [preambles of faith], and then complaining when they donâ€™t accept it, is like yelling in English at someone who only speaks Chinese, and then dismissing him as a fool when he doesnâ€™t understand you. In both cases, while there is certainly a fool in the picture, it isnâ€™t the listener.”
“The war is in our souls.”
“I think we are ready to know that there are going to be people who are ready to save the world, who come out when you're in trouble and make sure that you're okay.”
“In very truth the days are almost free, and if it is another way of saying that our lives are empty, well -- there are days when emptiness is spacious, and non-existence elevating . . .”

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