Men's plans should be regulated by the circumstances, not
circumstances by the plans.
[Lat., Consilia res magis dant hominibus quam homines rebus.]
Titus Livy
Quotes , Source: Annales (XXII, 39)
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Odd instances of strange coincidence.
Unattributed Author
Quotes , Source: Queen Caroline's Advocate in the House of Lords, on her association with Bergami
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The massive gates of circumstance
Are turned upon the smallest hinge,
And thus some seeming pettiest chance
Oft gives our life its after-tinge.
The trifles of our daily lives,
The common things, scarce worth recall,
Whereof no visible trace survives,
These are the mainsprings after all.
Anonymous
Quotes , Source: in "Harper's Weekly"
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Epicureans, that ascribed the origin and frame of the world not
to the power of God, but to the fortuitous concourse of atoms.
Richard Bentley
Quotes , Source: Sermons (II), preached in 1692
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And circumstance, that unspiritual god,
And miscreator, makes and helps along
Our coming evils, with a critch-like rod,
Whose touch turns hope to dust--the dust we all have trod.
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Quotes , Source: Childe Harold (canto IV, st. 125)
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Circumstances beyond my individual control.
Charles Dickens
Quotes , Source: The Personal History of David Copperfield (ch. 20)
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Man is not the creature of circumstances,
Circumstances are the creatures of men.
Benjamin Disraeli
Quotes , Source: Vivian Grey (vol. II, bk. VI, ch. 7)
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It is circumstances (difficulties) which show what men are.
Benjamin Disraeli
Quotes , Source: Vivian Grey (vol. II, bk. VI, ch. 7)
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To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and
convenience of our lives.
Oliver Goldsmith
Quotes , Source: Vicar of Wakefield (ch. XXI)
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Man, without religion, is the creature of circumstances.
Thomas Hardy
Quotes , Source: Guesses at Truth (vol. I)
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Thus we see, too, in the world that some persons assimilate only
what is ugly and evil from the same moral circumstances which
supply good and beautiful results--the fragrance of celestial
flowers--to the daily life of others.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Quotes , Source: Mosses from an Old Manse--The Old Manse
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And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself
to circumstances.
[Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Quotes , Source: Epistles (I, 1, 191)
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For these attacks do not contribute to make us frail but rather
show us to be what we are.
Thomas a Kempis
Quotes , Source: Imitation of Christ, (Dibdin's translation)
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Condition, circumstance, is not the thing;
Bliss is the same in subject or in king.
Alexander Pope
Quotes , Source: Essay on Man (ep. IV, l. 57)
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
C.P. Scott
Quotes , Source: Answer of the Author of Waverly to the Letter of Captain Clutterbuck, The Monastery
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Sir, my circumstances,
Being so near the truth as I will make them,
Must first induce you to believe; whose strength
I will confirm with oath, which I doubt not
You'll give me leave to spare when you shall find
You need it not.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: Cymbeline (Iachimo at II, iv)
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