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Fortune turns everything to the advantage of her favorites.
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Fortune turns on her wheel the fate of kings. [Lat., Praecipites regum casus Fortuna rotat.]
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Fortune! There is no fortune; all is trial, or punishment, or recompense, or foresight.
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Fortune, like a coy mistress, loves to yield her favors, though she makes us wrest them from her.
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Fortune, like other females, prefers a lover to a master, and submits with impatience to control; but he that wooes her with opportunity and importunity will seldom court her in vain.
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Fortune, men say, doth give too much to many, But yet she never gave enough to any.
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Fortune, my friend, I’ve often thought, Is weak, if Art assist her not: So equally all Arts are vain, If Fortune help them not again.
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Fortune, not wisdom, human life doth sway.
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Fortune, now see, now proudly Pluck off thy veil, and view thy triumph; look, Look what thou hast brought this land to!–
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Fortune, that arrant whore, Ne’er turns the key to th’ poor.
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Fortune, that favours fools.
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Fortune, the great commandress of the world, Hath divers ways to advance her followers: To some she gives honor without deserving; To other some, deserving without honor; Some wit, some wealth,–and some, wit without wealth; Some wealth without wit; some nor wit nor wealth.
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Fortune, to show us her power in all things, and to abate our presumption, seeing she could not make fools wise, has made them fortunate.
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Fortunes are made, if I the facts may state– Though poor myself, I know the fortunate: First, there’s a knowledge of the way from whence Good fortune comes–and this is sterling sense: Then perseverance, never to decline The chase of riches till the prey is thine; And firmness never to be drawn away By any passion from that noble prey– By love, ambition, study, travel, fame, Or the vain hope that lives upon a name.
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Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it’s ten to one if they hang long together.
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Fortune’s unjust; she ruins oft the brave, and him who should be victor, makes the slave.
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Fortune’s wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.
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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune
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Golden palaces break man’s rest, and purple robes cause watchful nights. Oh, if the breasts of the rich could be seen into, what terrors high fortune places within! [Lat., Aurea rumpunt tecta quietem, Vigilesque trahit purpura noctes. O si pateant pectora ditum, Quantos intus sublimis agit Fortuna metus.]
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Good and bad fortune are found severally to visit those who have the most of the one or the other.
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