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Near the village, a chief, retiring with that deliberate rolling stride and fierce look which all those intrepid fatalists displayed in both battles, passed near the General, who covered him with a pistol; but then remembering Meeanee, when in the midst of their warriors no hand had been raised against him, he held his finger.
We are all fatalists when we strike against power, and I hope he put care from him as the soldiers marched him out. The O'Rahilly also I knew, but not intimately, and I can only speak of a good humour, a courtesy, and an energy that never failed. He was a man of unceasing ideas and unceasing speech, and laughter accompanied every sound made by his lips.
All wise men are fatalists; and no proverb is more pithy than that which says, 'What can't be cured must be endured. Lie still, I tell you!
"And if that faith is justified, as you will help to justify it, that it may be transferred to a larger sphere," he answered. She gave him her hand, but did not reply. In these days of his preparation, she haunted him continually. In her he saw typified all those who possessed the: divine discontent, the yearning unsatisfied, the fatalists and the dreamers.
Another school the ancient Fatalists held that at first there was a fortuitous concourse of atoms and phenomena, until Fate or Chance decided the present order, which became an established necessity. A third class hold doctrines of Development.
Only those events are significant which derive from or apply to the soul in its full integrity. To go kow-towing before the facts of change, as gamblers and fortune-readers and fatalists do, is merely a perverting of the soul's proud integral priority, a rearing up of idiotic idols and fetishes.
He had a chance of escape, but went back to rescue a pal... a nice boy." They became fatalists after a few fights, and believed in their luck, or their mascots teddy-bears, a bullet that had missed them, china dolls, a girl's lock of hair, a silver ring. On the mornings of the battles of the Somme I saw them as the heralds of a new day of strife flying toward the lines in the first light of dawn.
The chimney of the old gas plant made an excellent mark. The man of the house, his wife and nine children, were living in the house. I took the front dining room as an office, put the telephones up in the back parlor and took down the half inch steel plates that were over the windows to keep out the shrapnel and let in the light of day. It is wonderful what fatalists we become in the trenches.
Now in the country, people live so much more out of doors, even children, and even in the winter. 'But people must live in towns. And in the country some get such stagnant habits of mind that they are almost fatalists. 'Yes; I acknowledge that. I suppose each mode of life produces its own trials and its own temptations.
All of them were fatalists, men of spirit and poetic temperament; all of them were tired of the commonplace life which they led; all felt attracted towards Asiatic pleasures by all the vehement strength of newly awakened and long dormant forces.
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