I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?

I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?

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.

Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck.

Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck.

Farewell, good Salisbury, and good luck go with thee!

Farewell, good Salisbury, and good luck go with thee!

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

Oh a cockroach is better luck than a cricket upon the hearth
for he magnetizes to your home those read more

Oh a cockroach is better luck than a cricket upon the hearth
for he magnetizes to your home those who love every heart.
(typo corrected).

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.

Now for good lucke, cast an old shooe after mee.

Now for good lucke, cast an old shooe after mee.