| 34 Circumstance Quotes
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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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“Men are the sport of circumstances, when
The circumstances seem the sport of men.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto V, st. 17)
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“I am the very slave of circumstance
And impulse--borne away with every breath.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: Sardanapalus (act IV, sc. 1)
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“The long arm of coincidence.”
Charles Haddon Chambers Quotes Source: Captain Swift
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“By some fortuitous concourse of atoms.
[Lat., Fortuito quodam concursu atomorum.]”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes Source: De Natura Deorum (bk. I, 24)
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“Thus neither the praise nor the blame is our own.”
William Cowper Quotes Source: Letter to Mr. Newton
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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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“Circumstances alter cases.”
Thomas Chandler Haliburton (used pseudonym Sam Slick) Quotes Source: The Old Judge (ch. XV)
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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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“What the discordant harmony of circumstances would and could
effect.
[Lat., Quid velit et possit rerum concordia discors.]”
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Quotes Source: Epistles (I, 12, 19)
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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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“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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“Man is the creature of circumstances.”
Robert Owen Quotes Source: The Philanthropist
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“Accidental and fortuitous concourse of atoms.”
Henry John Temple Palmerston Quotes Source: on the combination of parties led by Disraeli and Gladstone
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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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