All RALPH WALDO EMERSON Quotes about “Destiny”

“Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks he is free.”
“As we are, so we do; and as we do, so is it done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes.”
“We forget ourselves and our destinies in health, and the chief use of temporary sickness is to remind us of these concerns.”
“The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it.”
“Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated.”
“The book of nature is the book of fate. She turns the gigantic pages, leaf after leaf never returning one.”
“If we must accept fate we are not less compelled to affirm liberty, the significance of the individual, the grandeur of duty, the power of character.”
“Enlarge not thy destiny, said the oracle: endeavor not to do more than is given thee in charge.”
“Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.”
“Men of extraordinary success, in their honest moments, have always sung, "Not unto us, not unto us." According to the faith of their times, they have built altars to Fortune, or to Destiny, or to St. Julian. Their success lay in their parallelism to the course of thought, which found in them an unobstructed channel; and the wonders of which they were the visible conductors seemed to their eye their deed.”
“Those who have ruled human destinies, like planets, for thousands of years, were not handsome men.”
“The doctrine of Necessity or Destiny is the doctrine of Toleration.”
“I do not speak with any fondness but the language of coolest history, when I say that Boston commands attention as the town whichwas appointed in the destiny of nations to lead the civilization of North America.”
“Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of night, time out of space, and space out of time.”
“There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can, and by heroic encouragements, hold him to his task. What has friendship so signal as its sublime attraction to whatever virtue is in us?”
“Men are what their mothers made them. You may as well ask a loom which weaves huckabuck why it does not make cashmere as to expect poetry from this engineer or a chemical discovery from that jobber.”
“Man is made of the same atoms the world is, he shares the same impressions, predispositions, and destiny. When his mind is illuminated, when his heart is kind, he throws himself joyfully into the sublime order, and does, with knowledge, what the stones do by structure.”

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