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• The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Men, Evil, Fortune

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• Beautiful it is, and a gleam from the same eternal pole-star visible amid the destinies of men, that all talent, all intellect, is in the first plane moral. What a world were this otherwise!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Beautiful, Stars, Men

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• Locked up from mortal eye in shady leaves of destiny.

  Richard Crashaw

  Future, Eye, Shady

  'Wishes to His Supposed Mistress' (1648)

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• Know, he that foretells his own calamity, and makes events before they come, twice over, doth endure the pains of evil destiny.

  Bill Vaughan

  Pain, Evil, Events

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• If a man really has charge of his destiny at all, he should have something to say about getting born; and I only came through by a hair's-breadth. What had I to do with this momentous first step? In the language of the lawyer, I was not even a party of the second part.

  Clarence Darrow

  Party, Men, Hair

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “The Story of My Life”, p.10, Lulu.com

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• I believed that the way passed through Man, and that it was from there that destiny had to emerge.

  Pablo Neruda

  Men, Way

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• Go to meet destiny halfway and destiny will come to your assistance.

  Svetlana Alliluyeva

  Halfway, Assistance

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• Destiny is another name for humanity's half-hearted yet persistent search for death. Again and again peoples have had the chance to live and show what would happen if human life were irrigated by continual happiness; and they have preferred to blow up the canals and perish of drought.

  Rebecca West

  Blow, Names, Life And Death

  Rebecca West (2010). “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia”, p.545, Open Road Media

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• A poet is a combination of an instrument and a human being in one person, with the former gradually taking over the latter. The sensation of this takeover is responsible for timbre; the realization of it, for destiny.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Poetry, Realization, Responsible

  Joseph Brodsky (2011). “Less Than One: Selected Essays”, p.177, Penguin UK

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• Everything is chance, or nothing is chance. If I believed the first, I would be unable to live on, but I am not yet fully convinced of the second.

  Etty Hillesum

  Luck, Would Be, Firsts

  Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.62, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• How rash to assert that man shapes his own destiny. All he can do is determine his inner responses.

  Etty Hillesum

  Men, Shapes, Determine

  Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.258, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• I think that the human race does command its own destiny and that that destiny can eventually embrace the stars.

  Lorraine Hansberry

  Stars, Thinking, Race

  Lorraine Hansberry (2012). “Les Blancs: The Collected Last Plays: The Drinking Gourd/What Use Are Flowers?”, p.225, Vintage

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• Mind is the creator of everything. You should therefore guide it to create only good. If you cling to a certain thought with dynamic will power, it finally assumes a tangible outward form. When you are able to employ your will always for constructive purposes, you become the controller of your destiny.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Power, Mind, Purpose

  Paramahansa Yogananda (2011). “The Law of Success: Using the Power of Spirit to Create Health, Prosperity, and Happiness”, p.8, BookBaby

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• Of all human sentiments, enthusiasm creates the most happiness; it is the only sentiment in fact which gives real happiness, the only sentiment which can help us to bear our human destiny in any situation in which we may find ourselves.

  Madame de Stael

  Real, Giving, May

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• In women's destiny everything goes downhill except for thought, whose immortal nature it is to keep constantly rising.

  Madame de Stael

  Rising, Immortal

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• If we buy a plant of a horticulturist we ask him many questions as to its needs, whether it thrives best in sunshine or in shade, whether it needs much or little water, what degrees of heat or cold; but when we hold in our arms for the first time a being of infinite possibilities, in whose wisdom may rest the destiny of a nation, we take it for granted that the laws governing its life, health, and happiness are intuitively understood, that there is nothing new to be learned in regard to it.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Children, Sunshine, Law

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2016). “Elizabeth Cady Stanton: As Revealed in Her Letters & Diary (Abridged)”, p.78, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• Of course you have to believe in destiny; that everything is sheer chance is an intolerable notion.

  Fay Weldon

  Believe, Chance, Notion

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• There is nothing stronger than human prejudice. A crazy sentimentalism, like that of Peter the Hermit, hurled half of Europe upon Asia, and changed the destinies of kingdoms.

  Wendell Phillips

  Crazy, Europe, Stronger

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.51

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• Biology is destiny only for girls.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Girl, Biology, Sexism

  Elizabeth Hardwick (2011). “Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature”, p.189, New York Review of Books

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• It doesn't matter who you are, or what you've done, or think you can do. There's a confrontation with destiny awaiting you. Somewhere, there is a chile you cannot eat.

  Daniel Pinkwater

  Food, Thinking, Cooking

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• The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it should be eaten without delay. Its finder has carried it off therefore to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Morning, Food, Cooking

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”, p.110, Zillmann Publishing

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• I think the metaphysical world is something Lisa and I have always been interested in. We were encouraged from a very young age to believe in magic. Our mom used to take us to fairy parties. As we got older, I was always very drawn to manifesting my own destiny...learning how to do spells and personal ritual.

  Jessica Origliasso

  Mom, Party, Believe

  Source: www.fuse.tv

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• The Bible says "faith without works is nothing" so destiny is great, fate is great, faith is great - but you still have to work at it. I don't just sit at home and wait for it all to unfold.

  Denzel Washington

  Home, Fate, Waiting

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• If we admit that some infinite being has controlled the destinies of persons and peoples, history becomes a most cruel and bloody farce.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  God, Farce, Infinite

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1873). “An Oration on the Gods”, p.33

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• Hail, Holy Day! the blessing from above
  Brightens thy presence like a smile of love,
  Smoothing, like oil upon a stormy sea,
  The roughest waves of human destiny
  Cheering the good, and to the poor oppress'd
  Bearing the promise of their heavenly rest.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Cheer, Blessing, Holy Days

  Sarah Josepha Hale (1850). “Dictionary of poetical quotations”, p.461

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