No man knocks himself down; if his
destiny knocks him down, his
destiny must pick him up again.
Destiny ought to have brought you to the Palace Hotel too.'
Of what moment was it to me, in filling the
destiny of the linum usitatissimum, whether I grew in a soil a little more or a little less fertile; whether my fibres attained the extremest fineness known to the manufacturer, or fell a little short of this excellence.
Even as he did so he thought he perceived a certain haziness of eye and speech in his trustee; but he was too hopeful to be stayed, silenced the voice of warning in his bosom, and with one and the same gesture committed the money to the clerk, and himself into the hands of
destiny.
And owing to this inexperience of theirs, and also because the lot was a chance, many of the souls exchanged a good
destiny for an evil or an evil for a good.
Yes, my father," replied I; "some
destiny of the most horrible kind hangs over me, and I must live to fulfil it, or surely I should have died on the coffin of Henry."
I accomplish my
destiny with a calmness which is terrible to myself.
"During the moment I was silent, Miss Eyre, I was arranging a point with my
destiny. She stood there, by that beech-trunk--a hag like one of those who appeared to Macbeth on the heath of Forres.
Sufficient prominence has not, in my opinion, been given to the extraordinary
destiny of my father, the true hero of a nineteenth century romance.
Raoul, I seem to read your future
destiny as through a cloud.
You have too ably arranged my
destiny to allow gratitude not to stop me at the moment when I was about to destroy your work.
"Are they symbols--the cord and the knife of
destiny?"