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Example sentences for "human destiny"

  • It causes the most magnificent conceptions of human destiny to seem simply proportional to the native magnitude and beauty of the powers of the mind which can conceive such things.

  • When seeking to solve the question of human destiny, we are to study the facts and prophecies of human nature, and to conclude accordingly.

  • I saw and recognized The public joy, and the felicity Of human destiny.

  • The sad tone of his speculations about the universe and human destiny gave an impression of mournfulness to his lines, but this rather deepened the pathos of his work.

  • It must be the story of many men and many women, each one working out his salvation in his own way and all the threads woven into the divine design, carrying along in its small place on the loom the inscrutable pattern of human destiny.

  • Doctor Nesbit and Amos Adams were trying to solve the mystery of human destiny at the gate of the Adams' home the day after the funeral.

  • He must choose the material or the spiritual--and when he has chosen fate plays upon his choice the grotesque variation of human destiny.

  • What heathenism has ever approached the horrors of this conception of human destiny?

  • Oftentimes the temptation has come over me with dangerous urgency to try a change of existence, if such change is a part of human destiny,--to seek rest, if that is what we gain by laying down the burden of life.

  • Then, if the transformation does not come, they seem to think their cares and duties are at an end, and, considering their theories of human destiny, usually accept the situation with wonderful complacency.

  • The fact that tragedy has from of old been recognized as a higher form than comedy is partly due, no doubt, to the tragic poet's traditional right to round off a human destiny in death.

  • Our seat in the theatre is like a throne on the Epicurean Olympus, whence we can view with perfect intelligence, but without participation or responsibility, the intricate reactions of human destiny.

  • In that vision of human destiny, of the descent and ascent of the human soul, the old Orphic doctrine is united with the star-lore of the Euphrates.

  • The philosophy of Greece came to the cultivated Roman world with many different voices on the greatest problem of human destiny.

  • Manetho, who was one of the founders of the worship of Serapis, wrote a treatise for the Greek world on the influence of the stars on human destiny.

  • Something more than reason is needed to solve the problems of human destiny, the mysterious range of human aspiration.

  • Some have urged that élite youth, exempt from the struggle to live and left to the freedom of their own inclinations, might serve as a biological and ethnic compass to point out the goal of human destiny.

  • At seventeen he was solitary, musing about immortality, human destiny, feeling death at hand, giving up his studies, fancying himself a great man with new truths for humanity.

  • Unquestionably then he saw the cloud of human destiny, and he did not avert his eyes from it.

  • What Arnold precisely meant when he said that Wordsworth 'put by' the cloud of human destiny I am not sure.

  • But still what he showed was what he saw, and he saw it in the cloud of human destiny.

  • Lampman contemplated as well as observed He felt the pathos of human destiny.

  • I am the dictator of human destiny and my will is law.

  • But the great enigma of human destiny, which vexes the author of the seventy-third Psalm and that of the book of Job, still presses for a better solution.

  • Jewish folklore--preserved in rabbinic literature--has also attempted a popular explanation of the obscure ways of Providence, in strange events of nature as well as the great enigmas of human destiny.

  • The problem of human destiny is answered by Judaism with the idea that God is the ideal and pattern of all morality.

  • Again, for the great decrees which are to have an extensive influence on human destiny, to argue and consider seem to be a moral necessity among the gods, as much as important subjects require public debate among men.

  • And I do not believe in these things because I have come to believe in certain other things--in the coherency and purpose in the world and in the greatness of human destiny.

  • Do not misunderstand me when I speak of the greatness of human destiny.


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