"Common fate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... papers for him, and was ready to protect either them or his master. The probability was that Caratal had taken him into his counsel, and that to remove Caratal without removing Gomez would be a mere waste of energy. It was necessary that they should be involved in a common fate, and our plans to that end were much facilitated by their request for a special train. On that special train you will understand that two out of the three servants of the company were really in our employ, at a price which would make them independent for a lifetime. I ...
— Tales of Terror and Mystery • Arthur Conan Doyle
... and lose the substance;—the common fate of those who hazard a real blessing for a ...
— Rock A Bye Library: A Book of Fables - Amusement for Good Little Children • Unknown
... heart! and cease repining; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark ...
— Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two • Various
... 1706, was Ulysses; which, with the common fate of mythological stories, is now generally neglected. We have been too early acquainted with the poetical heroes, to expect any pleasure from their revival; to show them as they have already been shown, is to disgust by repetition; to ...
— Lives of the Poets, Vol. 1 • Samuel Johnson
... confess, the common fate of men of singular gifts of mind to be destitute of those of fortune; which doth not any way deject the spirit of wiser judgments, who thoroughly understand the justice of this proceeding; and, being enriched with ...
— The Worlds Greatest Books, Volume XIII. - Religion and Philosophy • Various
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