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 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. 
Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
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.
 It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life.
 [Lat., Vitam regit fortuna, non sapientia.]  
 It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life.
 [Lat., Vitam regit fortuna, non sapientia.] 
 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. 
 Any one who is prosperous may by the turn of fortune's wheel 
become most wretched before evening.
 [Lat., read more 
 Any one who is prosperous may by the turn of fortune's wheel 
become most wretched before evening.
 [Lat., Quivis beatus, versa rota fortunae, ante vesperum potest 
esse miserrimus.] 
 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." 
 Many things happen between the cup and the upper lip.
 [Lat., Multa intersunt calicem et labrum summum.]  
 Many things happen between the cup and the upper lip.
 [Lat., Multa intersunt calicem et labrum summum.] 
That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.