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God, grant me the Senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, the good fortune to run into the read more
God, grant me the Senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, the good fortune to run into the ones I do, and the eyesight to tell the difference
Don't trust in fortune until you are in heaven.
Don't trust in fortune until you are in heaven.
Alas! by what slight means are great affairs brought to
destruction.
[Lat., Eheu! quam brevibus pereunt ingentia fatis.]
Alas! by what slight means are great affairs brought to
destruction.
[Lat., Eheu! quam brevibus pereunt ingentia fatis.]
Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door.
Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door.
To be fortunate is God, and more than God to mortals.
To be fortunate is God, and more than God to mortals.
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.
Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the
proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in read more
Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the
proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a
common grave.
He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.
He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.
