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Destiny waits in the hand of God, not in the hands of statesmen.

 

Thomas Stearns Eliot (T. S.)

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So she prays for a prankster and lust in the marriage bed
And he waits till she can give
And he waits and he waits.

 

Tori Amos

 

Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.

 

Aeschylus

 

Time's right-hand man, the sea
Laughs as in joy
From his millions of wrinkles:
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Great with the greatness
Of triumphing order,
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William Ernest Henley

 

In excited states of the public mind they have scarcely a discretion at all; the tendency of the public perturbation determines what shall and what shall not be dealt with. But, upon the other hand, in quiet times statesmen have great power; when there is no fire lighted, they can settle what fire shall be lit. And as the new suffrage is happily to be tried in a quiet time, the responsibility of our statesmen is great because their power is great too.

 

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