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Destiny

1909

G. P. S.

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Destiny

G. P. S.

1909

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Muriel Standen carries her mother's shame like a second skin. When her guardian dies, she abandons the provincial life that has confined her and heads for London to pursue a career on stage, defying a society eager to judge her for her mother's infidelity. In the theatrical world, she finds both liberation and Francis Keene, a successful actor whose own family history conceals something darker. Their love blossoms with an intensity that feels like destiny itself until a devastating revelation threatens everything: the connection between their families runs deeper than either imagined, and the truth may destroy what they hold most dear. This is a novel about the weight of inheritance, about whether we are doomed to repeat our parents' mistakes or whether we can forge something new from the wreckage of their failures. The prose carries the emotional urgency of Victorian sensation fiction while exploring questions that feel urgently modern: Who are we when everyone insists we are our family's sin? Can love survive the uncovering of lies that shaped our very existence?

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A novelette published in the late 19th century. This fictional work explores themes of identity, betrayal, and the quest...

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Destiny, sometimes also called fate (from Latin fatum 'decree, prediction, destiny, fate'), is a predetermined course of...

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“A man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind.””

— G. P. S.

“Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power. ””

— G. P. S.

“A strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped, and even then the weak man must become strong of himself; he must, by his own efforts, develop the strength which he admires in another. None but himself can alter his condition.””

— G. P. S.

“The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to be harmoniously related to his inner state...Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.””

— G. P. S.

“As he thinks, so he is; as he continues to think, so he remains.””

— G. P. S.

“A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.””

— G. P. S.

“A person is limited only by the thoughts that he chooses.””

— G. P. S.

“A man only begins to be a man when he ceases to whine and revile, and commences to search for the hidden justice which regulates his life. And he adapts his mind to that regulating factor, he ceases to accuse others as the cause of his condition, and builds himself up in strong and noble thoughts; ceases to kick against circumstances, but begins to use them as aids to his more rapid progress, and as a means of the hidden powers and possibilities within himself.””

— G. P. S.

“Cherish your visions.Cherish your ideals.Cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts.For out of them will grow all delightful conditions, all heavenly environment, of these, if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be built.””

— G. P. S.

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