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When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.

When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Fate, Littles, Way

William Makepeace Thackeray (1868). “The Adventures of Philip on His Way Through the World: Shewing who Robbed Him, who Helped Him, and who Passed Him by : to which is Now Prefixed A Shabby Genteel Story”, p.53

Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!

William Makepeace Thackeray

Wise, Fate, Vanity

'Vanitas Vanitatum'

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