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It is never quite safe to think we have done with life. When we imagine we have finished our story fate has a trick of turning the page and showing us yet another chapter.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Rainbow Valley<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Lucy Maud Montgomery<\/a><\/p>\n It matters not how strait the gate, You pay for what you get, you own what you pay for… and sooner or later whatever you own comes back home to you.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0It<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Stephen King<\/a><\/p>\n We are merely the stars’ tennis-balls, struck and banded Which way please them.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0The Duchess of Malfi<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0John Webster<\/a><\/p>\n Were we no better than chessmen, moved by an unseen power, vessels the potter fashions at his fancy, for honour or for shame?<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Oscar Wilde<\/a><\/p>\n There’s a divinity that shapes our ends, Fortune’s a right whore: If she give aught, she deals it in small parcels, That she may take away all at one swoop.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0The White Devil<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0John Webster<\/a><\/p>\n But often the great cat Fate lets us go only to clutch us again in a fiercer grip.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0The Curse of Eve<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Sir Arthur Conan Doyle<\/a><\/p>\n It is curious to look back and realize upon what trivial and apparently coincidental circumstances great events frequently turn as easily and naturally as a door on its hinges.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Allan Quatermain<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0H. Rider Haggard<\/a><\/p>\n “This whole act’s immutably decreed. ‘Twas rehearsed by thee and me a billion years before this ocean rolled. Fool! I am the Fates’ lieutenant; I act under orders.”<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Moby Dick<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Herman Melville<\/a><\/p>\n We are merely the stars’ tennis-balls, struck and banded Which way please them. ~ John Webster…PLUS 9 more quotes from literature about fate.<\/p>\n ","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[947],"tags":[786,787,140,100,864,843,1175,613,419,99,172,617,1103,826,536,735,1176,1174,936,865,142],"class_list":["post-5093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quote-topics","tag-allan-quatermain","tag-h-rider-haggard","tag-hamlet","tag-herman-melville","tag-invictus","tag-it","tag-john-webster","tag-lord-arthur-saviles-crime","tag-lucy-maud-montgomery","tag-moby-dick","tag-oscar-wilde","tag-prince-of-denmark","tag-rainbow-valley","tag-sir-arthur-conan-doyle","tag-stephen-king","tag-the-curse-of-eve","tag-the-duchess-of-malfi","tag-the-white-devil","tag-topic1","tag-william-ernest-henley","tag-william-shakespeare"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nHow charged with punishments the scroll,
\nI am the master of my fate:
\nI am the captain of my soul.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Invictus<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0William Ernest Henley<\/a><\/p>\n
\nRough-hew them how we will.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Hamlet, Prince of Denmark<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0William Shakespeare<\/a><\/p>\nMore Quotes About Fate<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"