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O, once in each man's life, at least,
Good luck knocks at his door;
And wit to seize the flitting guest
Need never hunger more.
But while the loitering idler waits
Good luck beside his fire,
The bold heart storms at fortune's gates,
And conquers its desire.
Author: Lewis J. Bates
Source: Good Luck
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As ill-luck would have it.
Author: Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)
Source: Don Quixote (pt. I, bk. I, ch. II)
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I do not believe that the Good Lord plays dice.
Author: Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)
Source: Don Quixote (pt. I, bk. I, ch. II)
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As they who make
Good luck a god count all unlucky men.
Author: George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross)
Source: The Spanish Gypsy (bk. I)
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A farmer travelling with his load
Picked up a horseshoe on the road,
And nailed if fast to his barn door,
That luck might down upon him pour;
That every blessing known in life
Might crown his homestead and his wife,
And never any kind of harm
Descend upon his growing farm.
Author: James Thomas Fields
Source: The Lucky Horseshoe
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Now for good lucke, cast an old shooe after mee.
Author: John Heywood
Source: Proverbs (pt. I, ch. IX)
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I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for
the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected
works of Francis Bacon.
Author: John Heywood
Source: Proverbs (pt. I, ch. IX)
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I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
Author: John Heywood
Source: Proverbs (pt. I, ch. IX)
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Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half-way to
meet it.
Author: Douglas Jerrold
Source: Jerrold's Wit--Meeting Trouble Half-Way
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A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
[Lat., Felix ille tamen corvo quoque rarior albo.]
Author: Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal)
Source: Satires (VII, 202)
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Happy art thou, as if every day thou hadst picked up a horseshoe.
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Source: Evangeline (pt. I, st. 2)
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"Then here goes another," says he, "to make sure,
For there's luck in odd numbers," says Rory O'More.
Author: Samuel Lover
Source: Rory O'More
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Good luck befriend thee, Son; for at thy birth
The fairy ladies danced upon the hearth.
Author: John Milton
Source: At a Vacation Exercise in the College
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Luck is the residue of design.
Author: John Milton
Source: At a Vacation Exercise in the College
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There's something in't
More than my father's skill, which was the great'st
Of his profession, that his good receipt
Shall for my legacy be sanctified
By th' luckiest stars in heaven; and would your honor
But give me leave to thy success, I'd venture
The well-lost life of mine on his grace's cure
By such a day and hour.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: All's Well That Ends Well (Helena at I, iii)
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I will be treble-sinewed, hearted, breathed,
And fight maliciously; for when mine hours
Were nice and lucky, men did ransom lives
Of me for jests; but now I'll set my teeth
And send to darkness all that stop me.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Antony and Cleopatra (Antony at III, xiii)
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Farewell, good Salisbury, and good luck go with thee!
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Life of King Henry the Fifth (Bedford at IV, iii)
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As good luck would have it, comes in one Mistress Page, gives
intelligence of Ford's approach, and in her invention, and Ford's
wife's distraction, they conveyed me into a buck-basket.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Merry Wives of Windsor (Falstaff at III, v)
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This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers.
Away; go. They say there is divinity in odd numbers, either in
nativity, chance, or death.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Merry Wives of Windsor (Falstaff at V, i)
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And wheresoe'er thou move, good luck
Shall fling her old shoe after.
Author: Lord Alfred Tennyson
Source: Will Waterproof's Lyrical Monologue (st. 27)
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Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck.
Author: George S. Clason
Source: None
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All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck -- who keeps right on going -- is the man who is there when the good luck comes -- and is ready to receive it.
Author: Robert Collier
Source: None
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When God throws the dice are loaded.
Author: Greek Proverb
Source: None
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Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit.
Author: R. E. Shay
Source: None
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I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
Author: Brian Tracy
Source: None
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People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.
Author: Anne Tyler
Source: None
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Luck is the residue of design.
Author: Branch Rickey
Source: None
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If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.
Author: Maya Angelou
Source: None
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Don't you know by now, luck don't lead to anything or why you keep on moving
Author: Steve Winwood
Source: None
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Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast. In the stream where you least expect it, there will be fish.
Author: Ovid
Source: None
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Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.
Author: Ray A. Kroc
Source: None
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Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast in the stream where you least expect there will be a fish.
Author: Ovid
Source: None
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Good luck is a lazy man's estimate of a worker's success.
Author: Anon.
Source: None
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Oh a cockroach is better luck than a cricket upon the hearth
for he magnetizes to your home those who love every heart.
(typo corrected).
Author: Saiom Shriver
Source: None
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Those who mistake their good luck for their merit are inevitably bound for disaster.
Author: J. Christopher Herold
Source: None
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So unlucky that he runs into accidents which started out to happen to somebody else.
Author: Don Marquis
Source: None
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The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.
Author: Wilson Mizner
Source: None
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Oh a cockroach is better luck than a cricket upon the hearth
for her magnetizes to your home those who love every heart.
Author: Saiom Shriver
Source: None
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When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky.
Author: Dr. Armand Hammer
Source: None
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Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck.
Author: Joel Chandler Harris
Source: None
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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.
Author: Josh Billings
Source: None
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I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?
Author: Jean Cocteau
Source: None
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It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
Author: Joseph Conrad
Source: None
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Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: None
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If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky?
Author: Stanislaw J. Lec
Source: None
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You can take it as understood That your luck changes only if it's good.
Author: Ogden Nash
Source: None
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Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.
Author: Yiddish Proverb
Source: None
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Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck.
Author: George S. Clason
Source: None
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All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck -- who keeps right on going -- is the man who is there when the good luck comes -- and is ready to receive it.
Author: Robert Collier
Source: None
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Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
Author: Miguel De Cervantes
Source: None
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