Destiny Quote by Letitia Elizabeth Landon

“though fortune's wheel is generally on the turn, sometimes when it gets into the mud, it sticks there.”

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The very effort to forget teaches us to remember.

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Alas! we makeA ladder of our thoughts, where angels step,But sleep ourselves at the foot: our high resolvesLook down upon our slumbering acts.

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Imagination is to love what gas is to the balloon-that which raises it from earth.

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I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time.

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Curiosity is its own suicide.

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Curiosity and courtesy are very often at variance.

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

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Toil is the portion of day, as sleep is that of night; but if there be one hour of the twenty-four which has the…

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Consistency is a human word, but it certainly expresses nothing human.

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You can't choose what stays and what stays away.

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“Failing to meet your true destiny is a tragic act of free will.”

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“In that instant it all seemed to come clear to him- it came in a grisly flash of light, and he realized that the…

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“Destiny is the ordained intention God has sacredly prepared with your name on it.”

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