I agree that man is pre-eminently a creative animal,
predestined to strive consciously for an object and to engage in engineering--that is, incessantly and eternally to make new roads, wherever they may lead.
Each man lives for himself, using his freedom to attain his personal aims, and feels with his whole being that he can now do or abstain from doing this or that action; but as soon as he has done it, that action performed at a certain moment in time becomes irrevocable and belongs to history, in which it has not a free but a
predestined significance.
Rachel would say, he was
predestined for the part."
"I've even got an envelope--you see how everything's
predestined! There--steady the thing on your knee, and I'll get the pen going in a second.
No, let me be a dweller on the hills, On yonder mount Cithaeron, famed as mine, My tomb
predestined for me by my sire And mother, while they lived, that I may die Slain as they sought to slay me, when alive.
The life that was within him knew that it was the one way out, the way he was
predestined to tread.
Thou hast eyes and hands and mouth, which have been
predestined for blessing from eternity.
The minister gave out his text and droned along monotonously through an argument that was so prosy that many a head by and by began to nod -- and yet it was an argument that dealt in limitless fire and brimstone and thinned the
predestined elect down to a company so small as to be hardly worth the saving.
Some I have not had space to confide to the reader; but somehow or other they had not seemed the unmistakably
predestined for which I was seeking.
His countenance was coldly expressive, with regular features, and a large nose--one of those noses that resemble the prow of a ship, and stamp the faces of men
predestined to accomplish great discoveries.
But I was not to know that passion for five or six years yet, and in the mean time I kept on as I had been going, and worked out my deliverance in the
predestined way.
They are not the critics
predestined to bring me out, and develop my morals: -- that is the secret.