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Quotes About Destiny

I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in it's gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.
~ Henry David Thoreau
What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate. Viešoji nuomon? - ne toks baisus tironas kaip savoji. Tai, k? žmogus galvoja apie save, kaip tik ir lemia arba grei?iau rodo jo likim?.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Read your fate, see what is before you, and walk on into futurity.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Whatever my own practice may be, I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.
~ Henry David Thoreau
It is by a mathematical point only that we are wise, as the sailor or fugitive slave keeps the polestar in his eye; but that is sufficient guidance for all our life. We may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we would preserve the true course.
~ Henry David Thoreau
With a little more deliberation in the choice of their pursuits, all men would perhaps become essentially students and observers, for certainly their nature and destiny are interesting to all alike.
~ Henry David Thoreau
What is it that makes it so hard sometimes to determine whither we will walk? I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright.
~ Henry David Thoreau
we think that if rail-fences are pulled down, and stone-walls piled up on our farms, bounds are henceforth set to our lives and our fates decided. If you are chosen town-clerk, forsooth, you cannot go to Tierra del Fuego this summer: but you may go to the land of infernal fire nevertheless. The universe is wider than our views of it.
~ Henry David Thoreau
You conquer fate by thought.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Ce qu'un homme pense de lui-même, voilà ce qui règle ou plutôt indique son destin.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.
~ Henry David Thoreau
His highest duty to fodder and water his horses! What is his destiny
~ Henry David Thoreau
Why should they begin digging their graves as soon as they are born?
~ Henry David Thoreau
What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate. Self-emancipation
~ Henry David Thoreau
What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate. Self-emancipation even in the West Indian provinces of the fancy and imagination
~ Henry David Thoreau
I too would fain be a track-repairer somewhere in the orbit of the earth.
~ Henry David Thoreau
O que um homem pensa de si, eis o que determina, ou pelo menos indica, o seu destino.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Ciò che un uomo pensa di se stesso, è quello che determina, o piuttosto indica, il suo destino.
~ Henry David Thoreau
the arrows of fortune ….. derive their force from the velocity with which they are discharged; for, when they approach you by slow and perceptible degrees, they have but very little power to do you mischief.
~ Henry Fielding
It hath been observed, by wise men or women, I forget which, that all persons are doomed to be in love once in their lives.
~ Henry Fielding
it was the universal opinion of all Mr Allworthy's family that he was certainly born to be hanged.
~ Henry Fielding