“Not by hazard are ye come; divine fate, I ween, hath brought you to my shores.”
Haud temere est, fato divum reor ad mea vectos
litora vos.
Source: Argonautica, Book IV, Lines 741–742
Canto III, lines 85–87 (tr. Longfellow).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno
1920s, The Genius of America (1924)
Context: But in cherishing all that is best in the land of your origin, and in desiring the highest welfare of the people of the old home, the question arises as to how that result can best be secured. I know that there is no better American spirit than that which is exhibited by many of those who have recently come to our shores.
“You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore”
“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
Source: The Art of War, Chapter XIII · Intelligence and Espionage
“Let them have what instructions you will, and ever so learned lectures”
Sec. 67
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)
Context: Let them have what instructions you will, and ever so learned lectures of breeding daily inculcated into them, that which will most influence their carriage will be the company they converse with, and the fashion of those about them.
Actually by André Gide.
Misattributed
