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Necessity and chance

Approach not me; and what I will is fate.

Beyond and above the Olympian gods lay the silent,
brooding, everlasting fate of which victim and tyrant were
alike the instruments.

2. Appointed lot; allotted life; arranged or
predetermined event; destiny; especially, the final lot; doom; ruin;
death.

The great, th'important day, big with the
fate

Of Cato and of Rome.

Our wills and fates do so contrary run

That our devices still are overthrown.

The whizzing arrow sings,

And bears thy fate, Antinous, on its wings.

3. The element of chance in the affairs of
life; the unforeseen and unestimated conitions considered as a force
shaping events; fortune; esp., opposing circumstances against which
it is useless to struggle; as, fate was, or the fates
were, against him.

A brave man struggling in the storms of
fate.


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