The future works out great men's destinies;
The present is enough for common souls,
Who, never looking read more

The future works out great men's destinies;
The present is enough for common souls,
Who, never looking forward, are indeed
Mere clay wherein the footprints of their age
Are petrified forever.

All, soon or late, are doom'd that path to tread.

All, soon or late, are doom'd that path to tread.

We are but as the instrument of Heaven.
Our work is not design, but destiny.

We are but as the instrument of Heaven.
Our work is not design, but destiny.

No living man can send me to the shades
Before my time; no man of woman born,
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No living man can send me to the shades
Before my time; no man of woman born,
Coward or brave, can shun his destiny.

Character is fate. (Destiny)

Character is fate. (Destiny)

Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of
night, time out of space, read more

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.

Man's ultimate destiny is to become one with the Divine Power which governs and sustains the creation and its creatures.

Man's ultimate destiny is to become one with the Divine Power which governs and sustains the creation and its creatures.

We are what we must
And not what we would be. I know that one hour
Assures read more

We are what we must
And not what we would be. I know that one hour
Assures not another. The will and the power
Are diverse.

It's choice--not chance--that determines your destiny.

It's choice--not chance--that determines your destiny.