William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes about Destiny

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Life is soul's nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.

Life is soul's nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Destiny, Soul, Training

It is an awful thing to get a glimpse, as one sometimes does, when the time is past, of some little, little wheel which works the whole mighty machinery of fate, and see how our destinies turn on a minute's delay or advance.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Fate, Destiny, Past

William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Catherine. Little travels The Fitz-Boodle papers, etc. etc”, p.89