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To be fortunate is God, and more than God to mortals.
Author: Aeschylus
Source: Choephoroe (60)
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Any one who is prosperous may by the turn of fortune's wheel
become most wretched before evening.
[Lat., Quivis beatus, versa rota fortunae, ante vesperum potest
esse miserrimus.]
Author: Marcellinus Ammianus (Ammianus Marcellinus)
Source: Historia (XXVI)
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If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not
despond.
[Lat., Si fortuna juvat, caveto tolli;
Si fortuna tonat, caveto mergi.]
Author: Decimus Magnus Ausonius
Source: Septem Sapientum Sententioe Septenis Versibus Explicatoe (IV, 6)
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That conceit, elegantly expressed by the Emperor Charles V., in
his instructions to the King, his son, "that fortune hath
somewhat the nature of a woman, that if she be too much wooed she
is the farther off."
Author: Francis Bacon
Source: Advancement of Learning (bk. II)
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Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see
Fortune: for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.
Author: Francis Bacon
Source: Essays--Of Fortune
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Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
Author: Francis Bacon
Source: Essays--Of Fortune
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Fortune, now see, now proudly
Pluck off thy veil, and view thy triumph; look,
Look what thou hast brought this land to!--
Author: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
Source: The Tragedy of Bonduca (act V, sc. 5)
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The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a
goodly heritage.
Author: Bible
Source: Psalms (ch. XVI, v. 6)
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Just for a handful of silver he left us,
Just for a ribbon to stick in his coat;
Found the one gift of which Fortune bereft us,
Lost all the others she lets us devote.
Author: Robert Browning
Source: The Lost Leader, referring to Wordsworth when he turned Tory
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You carry Caesar and Caesar's fortune.
[Lat., Caesarem vehis, Caesarisque fortunam.]
- Julius Caesar (Caius Julius Caesar),
Author: Julius Caesar (Caius Julius Caesar)
Source: his remark to a pilot in a storm; see Bacon's "Essays--Of Fortune"
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Fortune, the great commandress of the world,
Hath divers ways to advance her followers:
To some she gives honor without deserving;
To other some, deserving without honor;
Some wit, some wealth,--and some, wit without wealth;
Some wealth without wit; some nor wit nor wealth.
Author: George Chapman
Source: All Fools (act V, sc. 1)
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It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life.
[Lat., Vitam regit fortuna, non sapientia.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: Tusculanarum Disputationum (LIX)
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Fortune favors the brave.
[Lat., Fors juvat audentes.]
Author: Claudian (Claudianus)
Source: Epistles (IV, 9)
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Alas! by what slight means are great affairs brought to
destruction.
[Lat., Eheu! quam brevibus pereunt ingentia fatis.]
Author: Claudian (Claudianus)
Source: In Rufinum (II, 49)
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If hindrances obstruct the way,
Thy magnanimity display.
And let thy strength be seen:
But O, if Fortune fill thy sail
With more than a propitious gale,
Take half thy canvas in.
Author: William Cowper
Source: Translation of Horace (bk. II, ode 10)
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Ill fortune seldom comes alone.
Author: John Dryden
Source: Cymon and Iphigenia (l. 592)
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Let fortune empty her whole quiver on me.
I have a soul that, like an ample shield,
Can take in all, and verge enough for more.
Author: John Dryden
Source: Don Sebastian (act I, sc. 1)
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Neuer thinke you fortune can beare the sway,
Where Virtue's force, can cause her to obay.
Author: Elizabeth I
Source: preserved by George Putnam in his "Art of Poesie", bk. III, "Of Ornament"
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Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.
Author: Euripides
Source: Pirithous
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Many things happen between the cup and the upper lip.
[Lat., Multa intersunt calicem et labrum summum.]
Author: Aulus Gellius
Source: Translation of Greek Proverb (bk. XIII, 17, 3)
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Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the
proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a
common grave.
Author: Edward Gibbon
Source: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (ch. LXXI)
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It is the fortunate who should extol fortune.
[Ger., Das Gluck erhebe billig der Begluckte.]
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Source: Torquato Tasso (II, 3, 115)
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The day of fortune is like a harvest day,
We must be busy when the corn is ripe.
[Ger., Ein tag der Gunst ist wie ein Tag der Ernte,
Man muss geschaftig sein sobald sie reift.]
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Source: Torquato Tasso (IV, 4, 62)
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Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door.
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Source: Torquato Tasso (IV, 4, 62)
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Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune,
He had not the method of making a fortune.
Author: Thomas Gray
Source: On His Own Character
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Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away.
Author: Charles V
Source: None
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A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.
Author: Benjamin Rush
Source: None
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Every individual is the architect of his own fortune.
Author: Appius Claudius
Source: None
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All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and. . . you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.
Author: Anita Brookner
Source: None
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Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.
Author: Horace
Source: None
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Don't trust in fortune until you are in heaven.
Author: Filipino Proverb
Source: None
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Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.
Author: James Russell Lowell
Source: None
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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Source: None
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Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us.
Author: Vincent Voiture
Source: None
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A great fortune depends on luck, a small one on diligence.
Author: Chinese Proverb
Source: None
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Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us.
Author: Vincent Voiture
Source: None
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Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.
Author: Douglas Jerrold
Source: None
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Deals under a hundred mil are for shoe clerks.
Author: Hunt Brothers
Source: None
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It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
Author: John Dryden
Source: None
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Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Source: None
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Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
Author: Sallust
Source: None
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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: None
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He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Source: None
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Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.
Author: Mark Twain
Source: None
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