“ Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man Commands all light, all influence, all fate. ”
Louisa May Alcott, Rose in Bloom (1876). copy citation
| Author | Louisa May Alcott |
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| Source | Rose in Bloom |
| Topic | fate influence |
| Date | 1876 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2804/2804-h/2804-h.htm |
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“And, as if his words suggested the selection, Mac, still lying flat upon his back, repeated one of his favorite bits from Beaumont and Fletcher, for he had a wonderful memory and could reel off poetry by the hour together.
“Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man Commands all light, all influence, all fate. Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts our angels are; or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.”
“Confoundedly bad angels they are too,” muttered Charlie ruefully, remembering the one that undid him.”
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