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Make haste! The tide of Fortune soon ebbs.
Make haste! The tide of Fortune soon ebbs.
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of read more
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.
Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.
 Neuer thinke you fortune can beare the sway,
 Where Virtue's force, can cause her to obay.  
 Neuer thinke you fortune can beare the sway,
 Where Virtue's force, can cause her to obay. 
 Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune,
 He had not the method of making a fortune.  
 Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune,
 He had not the method of making a fortune. 
It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, but is ruled read more
It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
 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. 
 The day of fortune is like a harvest day,
 We must be busy when the corn is ripe.
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 The day of fortune is like a harvest day,
 We must be busy when the corn is ripe.
  [Ger., Ein tag der Gunst ist wie ein Tag der Ernte,
   Man muss geschaftig sein sobald sie reift.]