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Chiefly the mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.
- I've seen the smiling of Fortune beguiling,
- I've felt all its favours and found its decay.
ALISON COCKBURN, The Flowers of the Forest
Fortune favors the brave.
- Who lets slip Fortune, her shall never find.
- Occasion once pass'd by, is bald behind.
ABRAHAM COWLEY, Pyramus and Thisbe
Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door.
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.
SIR WALTER SCOTT, Tale of the Crusaders
Those who have been indulged by fortune and have always thought of calamity as what happens to others, feel a blind incredulous rage at the reversal of their lot, and half believe that their wild cries will alter the course of the storm.
GEORGE ELIOT, Daniel Deronda
There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.
EURIPIDES, Iphigenia in Tauris
- Fortunes are wrung from the smallest of things
- That once were ignored, turning men into kings.
EDWIN LEIBFREED, "The Ragman"
We may lack riches, but the greatest fortune is what lies in our hearts.
Only he has a right to complain of undeserved misfortune, that is unwilling to accept undeserved good fortune.
They say fortune is a woman and capricious. But sometimes she is a good woman, and gives to those who merit.
GEORGE ELIOT, Middlemarch
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