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

Any one who is prosperous may by the turn of fortune's wheel become most wretched before evening.

If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond.

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."

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

Behind every great fortune there is a crime.

Fortune, now see, now proudly Pluck off thy veil, and view thy triumph; look, Look what thou hast brought this land to!--

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

Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a ribbon to stick in his coat; Found the one gift of which Fortune bereft us, Lost all the others she lets us devote.

You carry Caesar and Caesar's fortune. - Julius Caesar ,

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.

It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life.

Fortune favors the brave.

Alas! by what slight means are great affairs brought to destruction.

If hindrances obstruct the way, Thy magnanimity display. And let thy strength be seen: But O, if Fortune fill thy sail With more than a propitious gale, Take half thy canvas in.

Ill fortune seldom comes alone.

Let fortune empty her whole quiver on me. I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more.

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

Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.

Many things happen between the cup and the upper lip.