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 FORTUNE FORTUNE

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Tout comprendre rend tres-indulgent. To understand makes one very indulgent. Madame de Staël—Corinne.—Bk. XVIII. ' | seealso = (See also {{sc|A Kempis) Pardon, not wrath, is God's best attribute. Bayard Taylor—Poems of the Orient. Temptation of Hassan Ben Khaled. St. 11. L. 31. 4 The sin That neither God nor man can well forgive. | author = Tennyson | work = Sea Dreams. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 289 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Ignoscito ssepe alter, nunquam tibi. Forgive others often, yourself never. Syrus—Maxims. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 289 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Menschlich ist es bloss zu strafen Aber gottlich zu verzeihn. It is manlike to punish but godlike to forgive. P. von Winter. FORTUNE To be fortunate is God, and more than God to mortals. Æschylus—ChoSphorce. 60. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 5 | text = Si fortuna juvat, caveto tolli; Si fortuna tonat, caveto mergi. If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond. Ausontoh—Septem Sapientium Sententice Septenis Versibus Explicates. IV. 6. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 289 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = 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." Bacon—Adv. Learning. Bk. II. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 289 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune: for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible. Bacon—Essays. Of Fortune. n Fortune, now see, now proudly Pluck off thy veil, and view thy triumph; look, Look what thou hast brought this land to!— | author = Beaumont and Fletcher | work = The Tragedy of Bonduca. Act V. Sc. 5. "* « »J 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. Robert Browning—The Lost Leader. Referring to Wordsworth when he turned Tory. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Goldsmith}} under {{sc|Genius}}) | topic =  | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Caesarem vehis, Caesarisque fortunam. You carry Caesar and Caesar's fortune. Cesar's remark to a pilot in a storm. Sometimes given: Caesarem portas et fortunam ejus. See Bacon—Essays. Of Fortune. 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. Geo. Chapman—All Fools. Act V. Sc. 1. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 289 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Vitam regit fortuna, non sapientia. It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life. Cicero—Tusculanarum Disputationum. LLX. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 289 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Fors juvat audentes. Fortune favors the brave. Claudianus—Epistles. IV. 9. Cicero— De Finibus. Bk. III. Div. 4. Storeus— Floril. Tit. XXX. P. 135. Sophocles —Deperditorum Dramatum. Fragmenta. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Euripides, Ovid, Somerville, Statius, Vergil}}, also {{sc|Tibullus}} under {{sc|Daring}}) | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Eheu! quam brevibus pereunt ingentia fatis. Alas! by what slight means are great affairs brought to destruction. Claudianus—In Rufinum. n. 49. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 15 | text = If hindrances obstruct thy 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. | author = Cowper | work = Trans, of Horace. Bk. II. Ode 10. | place = | note = | topic = | page = 289 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = HI fortune seldom comes alone. Dryden—Cymon and Iphigenia. L. 592. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 289 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = 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. Dryden—Don Sebastian. Act I. Sc. 1. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Gray}} under {{sc|Hell}}) | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Neuer thinke you fortune can beare the sway, Where Virtue's force, can cause her to obay. Queen Elizabeth—Preserved by Geo. Puttenham in his "Art of Poesie." Bk. III. Of Ornament, "which" (he says) "our soueraigne Lady wrote in defiance of Fortune." Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment. Ecbiptdes—Pirithous. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Claudiamus}}) | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Multa intersunt calicem et labium summum. Many things happen between the cup and the upper lip. Aulus Gellius—Trans, of Greek Proverb Bk. XIII. 17. 3. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 289 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave. Gibbon—DecKne and Fall of the Roman Empire. Ch. LXXI,