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“There comes a terrible moment to many souls when the great movements of the world, the larger destinies of mankind, which have lain aloof in newspapers and other neglected reading, enter like an earthquake into their own lives--when the slow urgency of growing generations turns into the tread of an invading army or the dire clash of civil war, and grey fathers know nothing to seek for but the corpses of their blooming sons, and girls forget all vanity to make lint and bandages which may serve for the shattered limbs of their betrothed husbands.”

Source: Daniel Deronda

“The destinies of men are woven one with the other, and you can turn aside from them no more than you can turn aside from your own.”

Men Turns Destiny Woven

Book:The Castle of Llyr: The Chronicles of Prydain

Source: The Castle of Llyr: The Chronicles of Prydain

“So we have a choice to make. We can once again let Washington's bad habits stand in the way of progress. Or we can pull together and say that in America, our destiny isn't written for us but by us. We can place good ideas ahead of old ideological battles, and a sense of purpose above the same narrow partisanship. We can act boldly to turn crisis into opportunity and, together, write the next great chapter in our history and meet the test of our time.”

“Born, the Man assumes the name and image of humanity, and becomes in all things like unto other men who dwell upon the earth. Their hard lot becomes his, and his, in turn, becomes the lot of all who shall come after him. Drawn on inexorably by time, it is not given him to see the next rung on which his faltering foot shall fall. Bounded in knowledge, it is not given him to foretell what each succeeding hour, what each succeeding minute, shall have in store for him. In blind nescience, in an agony of foreboding, in a whirl of hopes and fears, he completes the cycle of an iron destiny.”

Men Hard Earth Humanity Turns Fall Next Names Given Born Hours Destiny Feet Minutes He Man Succeed All Things Blind Assuming Stores Iron Cycles Agony Hopes And Fears Foreboding Faltering

Author:Leonid Andreyev

“It is an awful thing to get a glimpse, as one sometimes does, when the time is past, of some little, little wheel which works the whole mighty machinery of fate, and see how our destinies turn on a minute's delay or advance.”

Littles Doe Sometimes Whole Past Turns Destiny Fate Minutes Awful Wheels Delay Glimpse Machinery Our Destiny Turn-on

Book:Catherine. Little travels The Fitz-Boodle papers, etc. etc

Source: Catherine. Little travels The Fitz-Boodle papers, etc. etc

“Woman is born for love, and it is impossible to turn her from seeking it.”

Turns Born Destiny Impossible Seeking

Book:Woman in the Nineteenth Century: And Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman

Source: Woman in the Nineteenth Century: And Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman

“The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry, where it is worthy of its high destinies, our race, as time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay ... More and more mankind will discover that we have to turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us.”

Art Poetry Turns Race Destiny Mankind Goes On Worthy Poetry Is Immense Console Time Goes On

Book:Poetry and Criticism of Matthew Arnold

Source: Poetry and Criticism of Matthew Arnold