She was chronologically in luck. She corresponded to necessity.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law.
Luck relies on chance, labor on character.
Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
In her experience all her friends relied, Heaven was her help and nature was her guide.
Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.
Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.
Necessity, the mother of invention.
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