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People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.
People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.
Ten years from now I plan to be sitting here, looking out over my land. I hope I'll be writing read more
Ten years from now I plan to be sitting here, looking out over my land. I hope I'll be writing books, but if not, I'll be on my pond fishing with my kids. I feel like the luckiest guy I know.
A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.
A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.
There's something in't
More than my father's skill, which was the great'st
Of his profession, that his read more
There's something in't
More than my father's skill, which was the great'st
Of his profession, that his good receipt
Shall for my legacy be sanctified
By th' luckiest stars in heaven; and would your honor
But give me leave to thy success, I'd venture
The well-lost life of mine on his grace's cure
By such a day and hour.
You can take it as understood That your luck changes only if it's good.
You can take it as understood That your luck changes only if it's good.
What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's read more
What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.
Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit.
Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit.
It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
A farmer travelling with his load
Picked up a horseshoe on the road,
And nailed if fast read more
A farmer travelling with his load
Picked up a horseshoe on the road,
And nailed if fast to his barn door,
That luck might down upon him pour;
That every blessing known in life
Might crown his homestead and his wife,
And never any kind of harm
Descend upon his growing farm.
