When Fortune smiles, I smile to think how quickly she will frown.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond.
Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier.'
Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away.
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.
Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'
Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.
Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.
A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose.
Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.
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