Fortune

So is HopeDepends on circumstance as much as you.

— Fortune

Fortune, my friend, I've often thought,If Fortune help them not again.

— Fortune

In losing fortune, many a lucky elfHas found himself.

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Fortune is like a widow won,And truckles to the bold alone.

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By wondrous accident perchance one mayA blind man may, by fortune, catch a hare.

— Fortune

Forever, Fortune, wilt thou proveCome in between, and bid us part?

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For fortune's wheel is on the turn, And some go up and some go down.

— Fortune

Fortune, that with malicious joyIs seldom pleas'd to bless.

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Fortune, now see, now proudlyLook what thou hast brought this land to!—

— Fortune

Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.

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O Fortune, cruellest of heavenly powers,Why make such game of this poor life of ours?

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Fortune comes well to all that comes not late.

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Fortune in men has some small diff'rence made,The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd.

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Fortune turns all things to the advantage of those on whom she smiles.

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Fortune knows,We scorn her most, when most she offers blows.

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And rail'd on Lady Fortune in good terms.

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Fortune brings in some boats, that are not steer'd.

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That they are not a pipe for fortune's fingerTo sound what stop she please.

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The great man down, you mark his favorite flies,The poor advanced makes friends of enemies.

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Will Fortune never come with both hands full,That have abundance, and enjoy it not.

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Fortune is merry,And in this mood will give us anything.

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When Fortune means to men most good,She looks upon them with a threatening eye.

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A good man's fortune may grow out at heels.

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Fortune, that arrant whore,Ne'er turns the key to the poor.

— Fortune

O fortune, fortune! all men call thee fickle.

— Fortune

Know thus far forth:Will ever after droop.

— Fortune

How some men creep in skittish Fortune's hall,While others play the idiots in her eyes!

— Fortune

Fortis fortuna adiuvat Fortune favours the brave.

— Fortune

The lovely young Lavinia once had friends;And fortune smil'd, deceitful, on her birth.

— Fortune

To be fortunate is God, and more than God to mortals.

— Fortune

That conceit, elegantly expressed by the Emperor Charles V., in his instructions to the King, his son, "that fortune hath somewhat the nature of a woman, that if she be too much wooed she is the farther off."

— Fortune

Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune: for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

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Just for a handful of silver he left us, Lost all the others she lets us devote.

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Fortune, the great commandress of the world,Some wealth without wit; some nor wit nor wealth.

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If hindrances obstruct thy way,Take half thy canvas in.

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Let fortune empty her whole quiver on me.Can take in all, and verge enough for more.

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Neuer thinke you fortune can beare the sway,Where Virtue's force, can cause her to obay.

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Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.

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Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.

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Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune;He had not the method of making a fortune.

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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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The bitter dregs of Fortune's cup to drain.

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Fortune, that favours fools.

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You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe—or she will call you ungrateful.

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I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend,For when at worst, they say, things always mend.

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Fortune had so favoured me in this war that I feared, the rather, that some tempest would follow so favourable a gale.

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The wheel goes round and round,And still the wheel goes round.

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Who thinks that fortune cannot change her mind,In peace provides fit arms against a war?

— Fortune

The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.

— Fortune