fortune (n.)
- affluence
- annals
- assets
- astrology
- autobiography
- biography
- blessing
- bomb
- boodle
- break
- bundle
- casualness
- chance
- chronicle
- chronicles
- chronology
- circumstances
- constellation
- cup
- destination
- destiny
- diary
- doom
- end
- estate
- fatality
- fate
- felicity
- flier
- fortuitousness
- fortuity
- future
- gamble
- gold
- hagiography
- hagiology
- hap
- happenstance
- hazard
- historiography
- history
- holdings
- independence
- indeterminacy
- indeterminateness
- inevitability
- journal
- karma
- kismet
- legend
- life
- lot
- luck
- luckiness
- lucre
- luxuriousness
- mammon
- means
- memoir
- memorabilia
- memorial
- mint
- money
- necrology
- needy
- obituary
- opportunity
- opulence
- packet
- pelf
- pile
- play
- plunge
- portion
- position
- possessions
- pot
- probability
- profile
- property
- prosperity
- record
- resources
- resume
- riches
- richness
- risk
- roll
- serendipity
- speculation
- stars
- story
- substance
- treasure
- uncertainty
- venture
- wad
- wealth
- wealthiness
- weird
- worth
Here rests his head upon the lap of earth,
A youth to fortune and to fame unknown:
Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth,
And Melancholy mark'd him for her own.
Chiefly the mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.
No radiant pearl which crested Fortune wears,
No gem that twinkling hangs from Beauty's ears,
Not the bright stars which Night's blue arch adorn,
Nor rising suns that gild the vernal morn,
Shine with such lustre as the tear that flows
Down Virtue's manly cheek for others' woes.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
It is more easy to get a favour from fortune than to keep it.
Anacharsis said a man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible favours and blessings of Fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.
When Fortune flatters, she does it to betray.
Forever, Fortune, wilt thou prove
An unrelenting foe to love;
And when we meet a mutual heart,
Come in between and bid us part?
'T is fortune gives us birth,
But Jove alone endues the soul with worth.
Fortune, the great commandress of the world,
Hath divers ways to advance her followers:
To some she gives honour without deserving,
To other some, deserving without honour.
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
I care not, Fortune, what you me deny:
You cannot rob me of free Nature's grace,
You cannot shut the windows of the sky
Through which Aurora shows her brightening face;
You cannot bar my constant feet to trace
The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve:
Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace,
And I their toys to the great children leave:
Of fancy, reason, virtue, naught can me bereave.
If a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she is blind, she is not invisible.
Fortune is like glass,—the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.
When Fortune is on our side, popular favour bears her company.
Fortune is unstable, while our will is free.
There is a tide in the affairs of men
Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy.
When Fortune means to men most good,
She looks upon them with a threatening eye.
When love could teach a monarch to be wise,
And gospel-light first dawn'd from Bullen's eyes.
Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune;
He had not the method of making a fortune.
The lowest and most dejected thing of fortune.
Chiefly the mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
It is more easy to get a favour from fortune than to keep it.
Fortune is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.
Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
One out of suits with fortune.
And rail'd on Lady Fortune in good terms,
In good set terms.
Fortune reigns in gifts of the world.
Unpack my heart with words,
And fall a-cursing, like a very drab.
If I do prove her haggard,
Though that her jesses were my dear heart-strings,
I 'ld whistle her off and let her down the wind,
To prey at fortune.
So weary with disasters, tugg'd with fortune,
That I would set my life on any chance,
To mend it, or be rid on 't.
Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.
To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.
Whom Fortune wishes to destroy she first makes mad.
