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“Think'st thou there are no serpents in the world But those who slide along the grassy sod, And sting the luckless foot that presses them? There are who in the path of social life Do bask their spotted skins in Fortune's sun, And sting the soul.”

Thinking World Soul Social Sun Path Feet Skins Presses Fortune Deceit Slides Social Life Serpent Sod

Book:The Complete Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie

Source: The Complete Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie

“Gipsies, who every ill can cure, Except the ill of being poor Who charms 'gainst love and agues sell, Who can in hen-roost set a spell, Prepar'd by arts, to them best known To catch all feet except their own, Who, as to fortune, can unlock it, As easily as pick a pocket.”

Art Poor Known Feet Picks Sells Fortune Ill Cures Charm Pockets Spells Hens Roost

Author:Charles Churchill

“When worse may yet befall, there's room for prayer, But when our fortune's at its lowest ebb, We trample fear beneath our feet, and live Without a fear of evil yet to come.”

May Evil Prayer Rooms Feet Future Fortune Lowest

Author:Ovid

“Withersoever the wheel of Fortune turns, Virtue stands firm upon her feet.”

Turns Virtue Feet Fortune Firm Wheels Stand Firm Wheel Of Fortune

Book:The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. XXXI (in 51 Volumes)

Source: The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. XXXI (in 51 Volumes)

“As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.”

Heart Courage Feet Rocks Danger Bravery Fortune Wave Hills Firm Instant Towers Scorn Arrows Seashore Dashing

Author:Akhenaton

“This is the posture of fortunes slave: one foot in the gravy, one foot in the grave.”

Feet Ambition Fortune Slave Graves Posture Gravy

Book:Further fables for our time

Source: Further fables for our time

“Everything here below beneath the sun is subject to continual change; and perhaps there is nothing which can be called more inconstant than opinion, which turns round in an everlasting circle like the wheel of fortune. He who reaps praise today is overwhelmed with biting censure tomorrow; today we trample under foot the man who tomorrow will be raised far above us.”

Men Today Turns Opinion Sun Feet Subjects He Man Tomorrow Praise Fortune Raised Rounds Circles Wheels Overwhelmed Everlasting Reap Censure Biting Transience Wheel Of Fortune

Book:The Best Tales of Hoffmann

Source: The Best Tales of Hoffmann

“There's just no accounting for happiness, or the way it turns up like a prodigal who comes back to the dust at your feet having squandered a fortune far away.”

Way Turns Feet Fortune Dust Far Away Accounting Prodigals

Book:Otherwise: new and selected poems

Source: Otherwise: new and selected poems