"Character is our destiny."
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"Whoever fails to turn aside the ills of life by prudent forethought, must submit to fulfill the course of destiny."
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"Astrology presupposes that the heavenly bodies are regulated in their movements in harmony with the destiny of mortals: the moral man presupposes that that which concerns himself most nearly must also be the heart and soul of things."
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"The destiny of mankind is arranged for happy moments every life has such but not for happy times."
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"I love him who desireth not too many virtues. One virtue is more of a virtue than two, because it is more of a knot for one's destiny to cling to."
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"I love him who maketh his virtue his inclination and destiny: thus, for the sake of his virtue, he is willing to live on, or live no more."
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"Vast, colossal destiny, which raises man to fame, though it may also grind him to powder!"
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"Each state of the human mind has some parable in the physical creation by which it is shadowed forth; nor is it only artists and poets, but even the most abstract thinkers that have drawn from this source. Lively activity we name fire; time is a stream that rolls on, sweeping all before it; eternity is a circle; a mystery is hid in midnight gloom, and truth dwells in the sun. Nay, I begin to believe that even the future destiny of the human race is prefigured in the dark oracular utterances of bodily creation."
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"Once [China] had a destiny. Once she was a conqueror. Now her greatest destiny seems to be merely to exist, to survive."
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"A fashionable wife! Oh! Never will I be anything so heartless! I have pictured for myself a far higher destiny than this. - Will it ever be more than a picture?"
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"The Broken Destiny series will be a trilogy, with each book releasing about a year apart."
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"How circumscribed is woman's destiny!"
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"Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?"
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"Take life too seriously, and what is it worth? If the morning wake us to no new joys, if the evening bring us not the hopes of new pleasures, is it worth while to dress and undress? Does the sun shine on me today that I may reflect on yesterday? That I may endeavor to foresee and control what can neither be foreseen nor controlled - the destiny of tomorrow?"
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"The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny."
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"What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness?"
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"Let not thy divining heart Forethink me any ill; Destiny may take thy part, And may thy fears fulfill."
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"The science of weapons and war has made us all one world and one human race with one common destiny."
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"This is my destiny — I'm supposed to do this, dammit! Don't tell me what I can and can't do!"
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"Somewhere in the infinite that He occupies, God advances and withdraws the pawns of the other games He plays, but it is too soon to worry about this one, all He need do for the present is allow things to take their natural course, apart from the occasional adjustment with the tip of His little finger to make sure some stray thought or action does not interfere with the harmony of destinies."
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