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Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
 You carry Caesar and Caesar's fortune.
 [Lat., Caesarem vehis, Caesarisque fortunam.]
   - Julius Caesar (Caius Julius read more 
 You carry Caesar and Caesar's fortune.
 [Lat., Caesarem vehis, Caesarisque fortunam.]
   - Julius Caesar (Caius Julius Caesar), 
I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can read more
I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
 If hindrances obstruct the way,
 Thy magnanimity display.
  And let thy strength be seen:
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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. 
 Just for a handful of silver he left us,
 Just for a ribbon to stick in his coat;
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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. 
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want read more
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife
Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
 Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see 
Fortune: for though she be blind, yet she read more 
 Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see 
Fortune: for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible. 
 That conceit, elegantly expressed by the Emperor Charles V., in 
his instructions to the King, his son, "that fortune read more 
 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."