“Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.”
Source: Oresteia (458 BC), The Libation Bearers, line 103
“But after a moment a sense of waste and ruin overcame him. There they were, close together and safe and shut in; yet so chained to their separate destinies that they might as well been half the world apart.”
Source: The Age of Innocence
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Context: p>The irrevocable Hand
That opes the year's fair gate, doth ope and shut
The portals of our earthly destinies;
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Breaks flood-like, drowning all the petty noise
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“They were so close to each other that they preferred death to separation.”
Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
(1802–1838) English poet and novelist
26th August 1826) Metrical Fragments No. II. Tasso’s last interview with the Princess Leonora. (under the pen name Iole
The London Literary Gazette, 1826
Source: City of Glass