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There is no doubt such a thing as chance, but I see no reason why Providence should not make use of it. - William Gilmore Simms Can that which is not shape, shape the things that are? Is chance omnipotent--resolve me why The meanest shellfish, and the noblest brute, Transmit their likeness to the years that come? - Dilnot Sladden Chance never helps those who do riot help themselves. - Sophocles What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster! - Jeremy Taylor How often things occur by mere chance, which we dared not even to hope for. [Lat., Quam saepe forte temere eveniunt, quae non audeas optare!] - Terence (Publius Terentius Afer), Phormio (V, 1, 31) A lucky chance, that oft decides the fate Of mighty monarchs. - James Thomson (1), Seasons--Summer (l. 1,285) He talks nonsense; to a sensible man there is no such thing as chance. [Ger., Er spricht Unsinn; fur den Vernunftigen Menschen giebt es gar keinen Zufall.] - Ludwig Tieck, Fortunat The mines of knowledge are often laid bare by the hazel-wand of chance. - Martin Farquhar Tupper Chance is a world void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause. - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire), A Philosophical Dictionary Displaying page 3 of 3 for this topic: << Prev 1 2 [3]
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