- Quotes by Sir Thomas Wyatt
“Fortune’s friend is mishap’s woe”. - Quotes by Virginia Woolf
“One likes people much better when they’re battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph”. - Quotes by Simone Well
“If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else”. - Quotes by John Webster
“Fortune’s a right whore: If she give aught, she deals it in small parcels, That she may take away all at one swoop. And of all the axioms this shall win the prize, “Tis better to be fortunate than wise“. - Quotes by James Thomson
“A lucky chance, that oft decides the fate Of mighty monarchs. I care not, Fortune, what you me deny: You cannot rob me offree Nature’s grace; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face; You cannot bar my constant feet to trace, The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve: let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great children leave: Of fancy, reason, virtue, naught can me bereave”.
- Quotes by James Thomson
“The sense that every struggle brings defeat, Because Fate holds no prize to crown success; That all oracles are dumb or cheat, Because they have no secret to express; That none can pierce the vast black veil uncertain, Because there is no light beyond the curtain; That all is vanity and nothingness”. - Quotes by Terence
“Fortune aids the brave”. - Quotes by Sir Richard Steele
“Every man is the maker of his own fortune. It was very prettily said, that we may learn the little value of fortune by the persons on whom heaven is pleased to bestow it”.
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