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{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Man is the creature of circumstances. Robert Owen—The Philanthropist. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Hardy) u Act-KTentp' ind fortuitous concourse of atoms. Lord -'almhrston. Of the combination of Parties led by Disraeli and Gladstone, March

| seealso = (See also {{sc|Bentley) Condition, circumstance is not the thing. | author = Pope | work = Essay on Man. | place = Ep. IV L. 57. The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances. Scott—Answer of the Author of Waverly to the Letter of Captain Clutterbuck. The Manastery - | seealso = (See also {{sc|Bentley) The Lie with Circumstance. As You Like It. Act V. Sc. 4. L. 100. is My circumstances Being so near the truth as I will make them, Must first induce you to believe. Cymbdine. Act II. Sc. 4. L. 62. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Circumstances | page = 120 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Leave frivolous circumstances. Taming of the Shrew. Act V. Sc. 1. L. 27. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Circumstances | page = 120 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = How comes it to pass, if they be only moved by chance and accident, that such regular mutations and generations should be begotten by a fortuitous concourse of atoms. J. Smith—Select Discourses. III. P. 48. (Ed. 1660) Same phrase found in MarcusMinucius Felix his Octamus. Preface. (Pub. 1695) | seealso = (See also {{sc|Bentley}}) | topic = Circumstances | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us. Swdt—Paraphrase of Rochefoucauld's Maxim. | seealso = (See also {{sc|under Adversity) " Aliena nobis, nostra plus aliis placent. The circumstances of others seem good to us, while ours seem good to others. Syrus—Maxims. | author =  | work =  | place =  | note =  | topic = Circumstances | page = 120 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Varia sors rerum. The changeful chance of circumstances. Tacitus—Histories. | place = Bk. II. 70. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Circumstances | page = 120 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = So runs the round of life from hour to hour. | author = Tennyson | work = Circumstance. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Circumstances | page = 120 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance. | author = Tennyson | work = In Memoriam. Pt. LXIII. St. 2. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Circumstances | page = 120 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = This fearful concatenation of circumstances. Daniel Webster—Argument. The Murder of Captain Joseph White. (1830) Vol. VI. P. 88. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Bentley}}) | topic = Circumstances | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = F. M. the Duke of Wellington presents his compliments to Mr. and declines to interfere in circumstances over which he has no control. Wellington. See G. A. Sala—Echoes of the Week in London Illustrated News, Aug. 23, 1884. See Capt. Marryatt—Settlers in Canada. P. 177. Grenville—Memoirs. Ch. II. (1823), gives early use of phrase. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Dickens}}) | topic = Circumstances | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Who does the best that circumstance allows, Does well, acts nobly, angels could no more. Young—Night Thoughts. Night II. L. 90. (Compare Habakkuk. II. 2)