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Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast. In the stream where you least expect it, there will be read more
Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast. In the stream where you least expect it, there will be fish.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
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.
As ill-luck would have it.
As ill-luck would have it.
As they who make
Good luck a god count all unlucky men.
As they who make
Good luck a god count all unlucky men.
Good luck is a lazy man's estimate of a worker's success.
Good luck is a lazy man's estimate of a worker's success.
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.
A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.
A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.
Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half-way to
meet it.
Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half-way to
meet it.
