{"id":8868,"date":"2013-04-09T14:19:18","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T14:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/04\/09\/captain-of-my-soul-but-not-master-of-my-fate\/"},"modified":"2013-04-09T14:19:18","modified_gmt":"2013-04-09T14:19:18","slug":"captain-of-my-soul-but-not-master-of-my-fate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/04\/09\/captain-of-my-soul-but-not-master-of-my-fate\/","title":{"rendered":"Captain of My Soul but not Master of my Fate"},"content":{"rendered":"

William Ernest Henley's Invictus <\/a>ends as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n

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It matters not how strait the gate,<\/span>
How charged with punishments the scroll.<\/span>
I am the master of my fate:<\/span>
I am the captain of my soul.      <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Half-right, say I.  I am the captain of the ship of soul, my soul; I control rudder and sails and chart my course.  But I am not the master of the sea or the wind or the monsters of the deep or the visibility of the stars by which I steer, or the stars themselves.  <\/span><\/p>\n

Nor am I the master of that which I control, my soul.  That I am a soul is beyond my control.<\/span><\/p>\n

And so my captaincy, sovereign in its own domain, and undeniable there, is bound round and denied by conditions and contingencies beyond my control.  <\/span><\/p>\n

I am not the master of my fate; at most I am the master of my attitude to it.  <\/span><\/p>\n

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William Ernest Henley's Invictus ends as follows: It matters not how strait the gate,How charged with punishments the scroll.I am the master of my fate:I am the captain of my soul.       Half-right, say I.  I am the captain of the ship of soul, my soul; I control rudder and sails and chart my course.  But I … Continue reading “Captain of My Soul but not Master of my Fate”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[301,161,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-will","category-poetry","category-stoicism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}