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We ought to give thanks for all fortune: it is is good, because it is good, if bad, because it read more
We ought to give thanks for all fortune: it is is good, because it is good, if bad, because it works in us patience, humility and the contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country
Deals under a hundred mil are for shoe clerks.
Deals under a hundred mil are for shoe clerks.
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.
 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.] 
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.
 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." 
 The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a 
goodly heritage.  
 The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a 
goodly heritage. 
He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.
He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.