And asks no omen but his country’s cause.
—Pope.
There’s a divinity that shapes our ends,
Rough-hew them how we will.
—Shakespeare.
To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take up arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing, end them?