Destiny urges me to a goal of which I am ignorant. Until that goal is attained I am invulnerable, unassailable. When Destiny has accomplished her purpose in me, a fly may suffice to destroy me.

Sometimes, you promise someone forever, but it doesn't work that way.

I feel the force of her amiable beauties in the recollection of a thousand tender passages that I coud wish to obliterate, till I am bid to revive them. - but experience alas! sadly reminds me how Impossible this is. - and evinces an Opinion which I have long entertaind, that there is a Destiny, which has the Sovereign controul of our Actions - not to be resisted by the strongest efforts of Human Nature.

Fate being unfavorable (or without God's grace, even an easy task becomes difficult to accomplish).

Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work- this is the only way.

It's been my fate to compensate for the childhood I've never known.