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So runs the round of life from hour to hour.
So runs the round of life from hour to hour.
To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and
convenience of our lives.
To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and
convenience of our lives.
Thus neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
Thus neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
Circumstances alter cases.
Circumstances alter cases.
Accidental and fortuitous concourse of atoms.
Accidental and fortuitous concourse of atoms.
What the discordant harmony of circumstances would and could
effect.
[Lat., Quid velit et possit rerum concordia discors.]
What the discordant harmony of circumstances would and could
effect.
[Lat., Quid velit et possit rerum concordia discors.]
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
The changeful change of circumstances.
[Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
The changeful change of circumstances.
[Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
And circumstance, that unspiritual god,
And miscreator, makes and helps along
Our coming evils, with a critch-like read more
And circumstance, that unspiritual god,
And miscreator, makes and helps along
Our coming evils, with a critch-like rod,
Whose touch turns hope to dust--the dust we all have trod.
