 | Wise sayings - 1864 - 394 pagina’s
...accidents conduce much to fortune ; favour, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue : but chiefly, the mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands, saith the poet. Essay on Fortune. — LORD BACON. FORTUNE. The mind superior to Though fortune's malice... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1864 - 638 pagina’s
...accidents conduce much to fortune ; favour, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue : but chiefly the mould of a man's fortune is in his own hand. ' Faber quisque fortune suae,' saith the poet : i and the most frequent of external causes is,... | |
 | Hugh Stowell Brown - 1870 - 310 pagina’s
...another makes bad luck of the much that he has received from the same source. Lord Bacon wisely says—" It cannot be denied but outward accidents conduce...the mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands." We speak with admiration of men who are the architects of their own fortunes, as if such men were comparatively... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1873 - 266 pagina’s
...accidents conduce much to fortune : favour, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue. But chiefly the mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands. JFaber quisque fortunes sua? saith the poet.2 And the most frequent of external causes is, that the... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 320 pagina’s
...accidents conduce much to fortune ; favour, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue. But chiefly, the mould of a man's fortune is in his own hand. Faber quisque fortunce suce, 5 saith the Poet. And the most frequent of external causes is, that... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1877 - 1014 pagina’s
...accidents conduce much to fortune; 2 favour, 8 opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue. But chiefly, the mould of a. man's fortune is in his own hands. FaJber quisque 1 multijdicatio et (at chymicortan mcabulo uiar) projectio taper naturam \uiwiiumi,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1879 - 228 pagina’s
...accidents conduce much to Fortune; favour, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue : 2 but chiefly, the mould of a man's Fortune is in his own hands : ' Fdber quisque fortuna sua,' 3 saith the poet ; and the most frequent of external causes is, that... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1879 - 272 pagina’s
...accidents conduce much to fortune ; favour, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue. But chiefly, the mould of a man's fortune is in his own hand. Faber quisque fortuna suee, 5 saith the Poet. And the most frequent of external causes is, that... | |
 | 1881 - 578 pagina’s
...accidents conduce much to fortune : favour, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue. rtions ; the other, by taking the best parts out of divers fa "Fabcr quisque fortunse sute,"* saith the poet. And the most frequent of external causes is, that the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1881 - 324 pagina’s
...accidents conduce much to fortune ; favour, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue. But chiefly, the mould of a man's fortune is in his own hand. Faber quisque fortunes sua, s saith the Poet. And the most frequent of external causes is, that... | |
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IT cannot be denied but outward accidents conduce much to fortune : favour, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue. But chiefly, the mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands. 
