"fate succumbs many a species; one alone jeopardises itself" What does it mean?
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Good luck or bad luck determines the life or death of most animals and plants on earth. You, on the otherhand, have some control over your situation, because you can choose with your brain when to take risks, to put your self in jeopardy. You alone jeopardize yourself by risk, not safety.
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I'm not entirely sure of the context of this qoute, but I would guess that it is telling a race of poeople who have been historically oppressed by others that they should work together and try to overthrow their oppressors/ achieve a certain goal because they can do anything when together and they are not inferior, even though they might have been told so by their oppressors.
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Literally: "I fear the man of one (single) book."\nAnd since he was generally a fairly shrewd fellow, I'd interpret it as being afraid of a very single minded person, which everybody should be.
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means don't plan your whole life ahead, if it was meant to be it will happen if it wasn't well you were destined to do/see/be somewhere/something else. And the reality of your plans failing will hit you hard if you keep planning everything. \n"Life is what happens while you're planning everything else."
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I don't know about in genesis, but I've always found ecclesiastes 3:19-21 interesting.\n\n"Man's fate is like that of the animals; the same fate awaits them both: As one dies, so dies the other. All have the same breath (or spirit); man has no advantage over the animal. Everything is meaningless. All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return. Who knows if the spirit of man rises upward and if the spirit of the animal goes down into the earth?"\n\njust some food for thought.
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Do not underestimate the power of the human body. Equal to survival is the human need for reproduction. Quite strong. More-so than most average morale and logic. A person who disciplines their mind could overcome. But those who follow their bodily desire like kittens in a field, chasing each butterfly stimuli only to become distracted by the next create the dilemma you bring to our attention. It's not in everyone's life path to do such, for in my beliefs, no matter how unfortunate and saddening to human emotion, all things happen in a finely intricate web of cause and effect, all tying into the same destiny. The chaos that we see, is really misunderstood harmony of what lifes main destiny has in store for us. In a way we create it, but do to our circumstances, there could be no other way for it to be. Such a postulate being out of scope of human emotion, makes for an impossibility for one to feel the need of going throughout life feeling irresponsible for their actions. You're destined to choose but that choice was included in that main web of destiny. Choice and destiny being one and the same. Simply put, Learning to accept and not force our expectations onto others, could only make for the best of worlds, but due destiny has in store what due destiny has in store, which in a sense, is the greatest perfection.
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It is a metaphor for death, a topic every poet dwells on from time to time.  Everything decays away in time, even mountains.
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It means that the 'he' in question lives separate from the world, feeling rejected although it is probably his own choice to be alone. 'He' may or may not feel as though 'he' has any choice in the matter, regardless.
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i think it comes from a person who has been "burned" 1 to many times be people that they've fallen after. so there for they advise against opening up ones heart to easily, to often.\ni really like this poem, did you write it? if not who did?
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Where is fate and who is fate? We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate.\nNone else has the blame, none else has the praise. We make our own destiny.\n\nSWAMI VIVEKANANDA
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Yeah, I think it's saying that something has no meaning or worth.\n\n"Oh no you di'n floccinaucinihilipilificate me!"
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I believe this is a quote of Holden Caufield from J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye. In telling us his story he begins to miss everybody. In a sense he is saying nostalgia is self perpetuating or futile.
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That is kind of a tricky little quote. Sometimes placing it in context can help. This is a quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay "Self Reliance," which discourages basing one's opinions and actions on common opinion in favor of self-trust (see the full essay at http://www.emersoncentral.com/selfreliance.htm). \nI think the point of this quote is that it's very desireable to have one's own original thoughts and opinions, and to live by them.  It's easier to live by one's own convictions and not be persuaded by others when in isolation (that's the "independence of solitude"). However, not so special to isolate oneself from others in order to attain this ideal. Because it's difficult to live by one's own thoughts and opinions while being a part of society, it's something only a "finished man" can truly do. Also, in the essay, Emerson refers to being childlike - unselfish, non-judgmental, open-minded, uncynical, unhesitant - as something to admire. So I think that's where the seemingly misplaced "perfect sweetness" comes in. When a man can remain pure of heart while living in the harsh world and also keeping and living by his own ideals. \nWhat do you think?
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Both. And I quote. "Fate is the path we are destined to take. Choice is how we get there". Make the right decision and the rest will fall into place.
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Looking at past events, it is easy to chalk up coincedences as fate.  But looking forward, nothing is written.  You get to decide your fate.\n\nLove,\nme
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With most religions, fate doesn't have anything to do with it. They include the idea that a person will make choices, and they encourage the "live right" moral choices. But there are some religions, though I can't recall right now, that believe in predestination, that there's no free will, that what you choose is irrelevant and everything that's going to happen from now until the end of time is already laid out in a grand plan...sounds pretty stupid to me.
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I believe the meaning behind your quote is that people "grow" (mentally/emotionally) from sorrowful experiences.  If you consider the notion, sorrowful (or sad) experiences are those which we contemplate the most.  Therefore the only way to get past them is to learn from them, thus leaving us in a different place.