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Wyrd Oft Nereth Unfaegne Eorl, Thone His Ellen Deah.
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Wyrd oft nereth
Unfaegne eorl, thone his ellen deah.
[Fate often saves an undoomed warrior when his courage endures.]
-- Beowulf, c. 1000 CE -- from Britannica, 11th ed., vol. III
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There comes a time when a wizard must put his fate totally in the hands of another.
This takes great courage, and great faith in the ability of others to perform some function that is beyond you....
A man's character is his fate. Heraclitu
A little inaccuracy saves a world of explanation. -- C.E. Ayre
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
-- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Reflections on the Revolution in France, Vol. iii, p. 334...
Heraclitus says that Pittacus, when he had got Alcaeus into his power, released him, saying, "Forgiveness is better than revenge.
-- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Pittacus, iii...
When you can't do anything else to a boy, you can make him wash his face. -- Ed Howe
How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is. -- Wilhelm von Humbold
Remember when a trojan was a warrior?
GRATEFUL DEAD The motif of a cycle of folk tales which begin with the hero's coming upon a group of people ill-treating or refusing to bury the corpse of a man who had died without paying his debts.
He gives his last penny either to pay the man's debts or to give him a decent burial....