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Destiny is the preordained course of events believed to unfold inevitably, a powerful and often mysterious force shaping our lives towards a specific end, whether predetermined or intrinsically linked to our inherent nature. It holds meaning for human life because it offers a framework for understanding purpose, inspires hope or resignation, and compels us to grapple with the interplay of free will and cosmic order in our individual narratives.

Destiny

# Destiny & Belief

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Context: • William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600-02), Act I, scene 5, line 47.
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“What a falling-off was there!”

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Context: • Heraclitus. In Mullach's Fragmenta Philosophorum Græcorum.
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“Character is fate. (Destiny).”

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Context: • William Shakespeare, Richard III (c. 1591), Act IV, scene 4, line 291.
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“What is done cannot be now amended.”

— Unknown

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Context: • We bear each one our own destiny.
• Virgil, Æneid (29-19 BC), VI. 743.
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“Quisque suos patimur manes.”

— Unknown

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Context: • Wendell Phillips, speech (Nov. 1, 1859).
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“Every man meets his Waterloo at last.”

— Unknown

# Destiny & Time

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Context: • For rarely man escapes his destiny.
• Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso (1516), XVIII. 58.
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“Che l'uomo il suo destin fugge di raro. ”

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Context: • Job, as mentioned in Legends of the Jews written by Louis Ginzberg (1909)
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“If the heavens turn against me, I can do nothing.”

— Unknown

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Context: • Homer, The Odyssey, Book XII, line 31. Pope's translation.
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“All, soon or late, are doom'd that path to tread.”

— Unknown

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Context: • Robert Greene, The Art of Seduction (2001)
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“Nothing is more seductive than a sense of destiny.”

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Context: • Old Man from My Sassy Girl (2008), written by Victor Levin
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“Destiny is the bridge you build to the one you love.”

— Unknown

# Destiny & Themes

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Context: • Abe Petrovsky in Rounders (1998), written by David Levien and Brian Koppelman
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“We can't run from who we are. Our destiny chooses us.”

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Context: • William Shakespeare, Macbeth (1605), Act IV, scene 1, line 117.
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“What, will the line stretch out to the crack of doom?”

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Context: • Wedding is destiny,
And hanging likewise.
• John Heywood, Proverbs (1546) Part I, chapter 3.
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“Weddyng is desteny,
And hangyng likewise.”

— Unknown

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Context: • I feel that I am a man of destiny.
• Friedrich Schiller, Wallenstein's Tod, III, XV. 171.
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“Ich fühl 's das ich der Mann des Schicksals bin.”

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Context: • William Shakespeare, Macbeth (1605), Act II, scene 1, line 63.
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“For it is a knell
That summons thee to heaven or to hell.”

— Unknown

# Destiny & Philosophy

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Context: • Joseph Addison, Cato, A Tragedy (1713), Act V, scene 1.
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“My death and life,
My bane and antidote, are both before me.”

— Unknown

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Context: • William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (1597), Act I, scene 4, line 112. ("Direct my suit" in folio and quarto of 1690).
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“But He, that hath the steerage of my course,
Direct my sail!”

— Unknown

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Context: • John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, trans. Henry Beveridge (Hendrickson, 2008), 1.16.2-3,8
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“All events whatsoever are governed by the secret counsel of God.”

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Context: • Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam A.H.H. (1849), XVIII, Stanza 1.
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“And from his ashes may be made
The violet of his native land.”

— Unknown

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Context: • Your destiny is that of a man, and your vows those of a god.
• Voltaire, La Liberté.
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“Tes destins sont d'un homme, et tes vœux sont d'un dieu.”

— Unknown

# Destiny & Religion

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Context: • Poul Anderson, The Corridors of Time (1965), Chapter 16
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““Destiny,” said John. “The ghastliest word a man can speak.””

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Context: • Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin, Anarchism and the Black Revolution (1993)
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“No people are truly free until they can determine their own destiny.”

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Context: • Owen Meredith (Lord Lytton), Wanderer, Book III. Futility, Stanza 6.
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“They only fall, that strive to move,
Or lose, that care to keep.”

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Context: • William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure (1603), Act II, scene 2, line 64.
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“If he had been as you and you as he,
You would have slipt like him.”

— Unknown

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Context: • Ambrose Bierce, The Cynic's Dictionary (1906); republished as The Devil's Dictionary (1911).
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“DESTINY, n. A tyrant's authority for crime and fool's excuse for failure.”

— Unknown

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