Essays and New AtlantisVan Nostrand, 1942 - 302 pages |
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Page 168
... fortune ; favor , opportunity , death of others , occasion fitting virtue ; but , chiefly , the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands : Every man is the architect of his own fortune , 1 saith the poet ; and the most frequent of ...
... fortune ; favor , opportunity , death of others , occasion fitting virtue ; but , chiefly , the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands : Every man is the architect of his own fortune , 1 saith the poet ; and the most frequent of ...
Page 169
... Fortune ; for though she be blind , yet she is not invisible . The way of Fortune is like the milky way in the sky ; which is a meeting , or knot , of a number of small stars , not seen asunder , but giving light together ; so are there ...
... Fortune ; for though she be blind , yet she is not invisible . The way of Fortune is like the milky way in the sky ; which is a meeting , or knot , of a number of small stars , not seen asunder , but giving light together ; so are there ...
Page 170
... Fortune had no part , never prospered in anything he undertook afterwards . Certainly there be whose fortunes are like Homer's verses , that have a slide and easiness more than the verses of other poets ; as Plutarch saith of Timoleon's ...
... Fortune had no part , never prospered in anything he undertook afterwards . Certainly there be whose fortunes are like Homer's verses , that have a slide and easiness more than the verses of other poets ; as Plutarch saith of Timoleon's ...
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