FORTUNE FORTUNE
I pardon him, as God shall pardon me.
Richard II. Act V. Sc. 3. L. 131.
Tout comprendre rend tres-indulgent.
To understand makes one very indulgent.
Madame de Staël—Corinne.—Bk. XVIII.
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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.
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Ignoscito ssepe alter, nunquam tibi.
Forgive others often, yourself never.
Syrus—Maxims.
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.
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| 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.
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.
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!—
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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.
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| text = <poem>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.
Vitam regit fortuna, non sapientia.
It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's
life.
Cicero—Tusculanarum Disputationum. LLX.
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.
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| text = <poem>Eheu! quam brevibus pereunt ingentia fatis.
Alas! by what slight means are great affairs
brought to destruction.
Claudianus—In Rufinum. n. 49.
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| 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.
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HI fortune seldom comes alone.
Dryden—Cymon and Iphigenia. L. 592.
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.
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| text = <poem>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.
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| text = <poem>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.
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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,
