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We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she takes the knave of hearts.
Destiny. A tyrant’s authority for crime and a fool’s excuse for failure.
Ambrose Bierce (1842 – 1914) American author.
We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned.
English Proverb.
Man proposes, but God disposes.
Thomas a Kempis.
We are but the instruments of heaven; our work is not design, but destiny.
Owen Meredith.
No man of woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny.
Homer.
Destiny is the scapegoat which we make responsible for all our crime and follies; a necessity which we set down for invincible when we have no wish to strive against it.
Balfour.
The acts of this life are the destiny of the next.
Eastern Proverb.
That which God writes on thy forehead, thou with come to it.
Koran.
Destiny is but a phrase of the weal human heart the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other.
Bulwer.
Philosophers never stood in need of Homer or the Pharisees to be convinced that everything is done by immutable laws; that everything is settled; that everything is the necessary effect of some previous cause.
Voltaire.
The clew of our destiny, wander where we will, lies at the cradle foot.
Richter.
Nothing comes to pass but what God appoints. Our fate is decreed, and things do not happen by chance, but every man’s; portion of joy or sorrow is predetermined.
Seneca.
That which is not allowed the hand cannot reach; and what is allotted you will find wherever you may be.
Saadi.
Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny.
Goethe.
If the course of human affairs be considered it will be seen that many things arise against which heaven does not allow us to guard.
Machiavelli.
Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.
Confucius.
The wheels of nature are not made to roll backward; everything presses on toward eternity: from the birth of time an impetuous current has set in, which bears all the sons of men toward that interminable ocean. Meanwhile heaven is attracting to itself whatever is congenial to its nature, is enriching itself by the spoils of earth, and collecting within its capacious bosom whatever is pure, permanent, and divine.
Robert Hall.
I do not mean to expose my ideas to ingenious ridicule by maintaining that everything happens to every man for the best; but I will contend, that he who makes the best use of it, fulfills the part of a wise and good man.
Cumberland.
Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.
Tryon Edwards.
Destiny. A tyrant’s authority for crime and a fool’s excuse for failure.
Ambrose Bierce (1842 – 1914) American author.
We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned.
English Proverb.
Man proposes, but God disposes.
Thomas a Kempis.
We are but the instruments of heaven; our work is not design, but destiny.
Owen Meredith.
No man of woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny.
Homer.
Destiny is the scapegoat which we make responsible for all our crime and follies; a necessity which we set down for invincible when we have no wish to strive against it.
Balfour.
The acts of this life are the destiny of the next.
Eastern Proverb.
That which God writes on thy forehead, thou with come to it.
Koran.
Destiny is but a phrase of the weal human heart the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other.
Bulwer.
Philosophers never stood in need of Homer or the Pharisees to be convinced that everything is done by immutable laws; that everything is settled; that everything is the necessary effect of some previous cause.
Voltaire.
The clew of our destiny, wander where we will, lies at the cradle foot.
Richter.
Nothing comes to pass but what God appoints. Our fate is decreed, and things do not happen by chance, but every man’s; portion of joy or sorrow is predetermined.
Seneca.
That which is not allowed the hand cannot reach; and what is allotted you will find wherever you may be.
Saadi.
Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny.
Goethe.
If the course of human affairs be considered it will be seen that many things arise against which heaven does not allow us to guard.
Machiavelli.
Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.
Confucius.
The wheels of nature are not made to roll backward; everything presses on toward eternity: from the birth of time an impetuous current has set in, which bears all the sons of men toward that interminable ocean. Meanwhile heaven is attracting to itself whatever is congenial to its nature, is enriching itself by the spoils of earth, and collecting within its capacious bosom whatever is pure, permanent, and divine.
Robert Hall.
I do not mean to expose my ideas to ingenious ridicule by maintaining that everything happens to every man for the best; but I will contend, that he who makes the best use of it, fulfills the part of a wise and good man.
Cumberland.
Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.
Tryon Edwards.
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