Ann-Marie MacDonald book Fall on Your Knees
Variant: To believe and yet to have no hope is to thirst beside a fountain.
Source: Fall on Your Knees
“Yet they, believe me, who await
No gifts from Chance, have conquer’d Fate.”
Source: Resignation (1849), l. 248-249
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No gifts from Chance, have conquer’d Fate." by Matthew Arnold?
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“Those who deny chance. — 'No victor believes in chance.”
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'Kein Sieger glaubt an den Zufall.
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Roberto Mangabeira Unger book The Self Awakened: Pragmatism Unbound
Source: The Self Awakened: Pragmatism Unbound (2007), p. 18