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Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.
Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.
Fortune and love favor the brave.
Fortune and love favor the brave.
Ill fortune seldom comes alone.
Ill fortune seldom comes alone.
Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.
Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.
Fortune, the great commandress of the world,
Hath divers ways to advance her followers:
To some she read more
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.
Fortune favors the brave.
[Lat., Fors juvat audentes.]
Fortune favors the brave.
[Lat., Fors juvat audentes.]
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."
Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.
Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.
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.