Friedrich von Schiller Quotes on Destiny
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Who dares impede my progress? Who presume The spirit to control which guideth me? Still must the arrow wing its destined flight! Where danger is, there must Johanna be; Nor now, nor here, am I foredoomed to fall; Our monarch's royal brow I first must see Invested with the round of sovereignty. No hostile power can rob me of my life, Till I've accomplished the commands of God.
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In thy breast are the stars of thy fate.
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The dictates of the heart are the voice of fate.
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There's no such thing as chance; And what to us seems merest accident Springs from the deepest source of destiny.
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No cause has he to say his doom is harsh, Who's made the master of his destiny.
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Each state of the human mind has some parable in the physical creation by which it is shadowed forth; nor is it only artists and poets, but even the most abstract thinkers that have drawn from this source. Lively activity we name fire; time is a stream that rolls on, sweeping all before it; eternity is a circle; a mystery is hid in midnight gloom, and truth dwells in the sun. Nay, I begin to believe that even the future destiny of the human race is prefigured in the dark oracular utterances of bodily creation.
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Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.
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Mankind is made great or little by its own will.
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Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.
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There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.