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“Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.”

Past Opportunity Behinds Fortune Occasions Slips

Book:The Complete Works in Verse and Prose of Abraham Cowley

Source: The Complete Works in Verse and Prose of Abraham Cowley

“It's hard to tell our good luck sometimes. Hard to tell sometimes for many years to come. And most of us have wept copious tears over someone or something, when if we'd understood the situation better, we might have celebrated our good fortune insteadOne can never change the past, only the hold it has on you and while nothing in your life is reversible, you can reverse it nevertheless.”

Ifs Years Sometimes Hard Might Past Life Is Situation Tears Understood Luck Fortune Reverse Nevertheless Good Fortune Good Luck Never Change

Author:Merle Shain

“The compliments you are about to pay could only sadden me, because what you love in our dear peninsula is exactly the object of our hatreds. Indeed, you crisscross Italy only to meticulously sniff out the traces of our oppressive past, and you are happy, insanely happy, if you have the good fortune to carry home some miserable stone on which our ancestors have trodden.”

Ifs Home Past Pay Objects Stones Hatred Fortune Dear Miserable Compliment Ancestor Good Fortune What You Love Peninsulas Compliments You

Author:Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

“Press on! If Fortune play thee false To-day, tomorrow she'll be true; Whom now she sinks she now exalts, Taking old gifts and granting new, The wisdom of the present hour Makes up the follies past and gone; To weakness, strength succeeds, and power From frailty springs! Press on, press on!”

Ifs Play Past Hours Gone Tomorrow Succeed Spring Weakness Presses Fortune Being True Thee Folly Frailty

Author:Benjamin

“If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.”

Ifs Should Past Fame Blessed Fortune Fruit Rewards Seeds Dharma Being Blessed Great Reward

Book:The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

“The skyscraper and the twentieth century are synonymous; the tall building is the landmark of our age. ... Shaper of cities and fortunes, it is the dream, past and present, acknowledged or unacknowledged, of almost every architect.”

Dream Age Past Cities Century Building Fortune Architecture Tall Architect Twentieth Century Past And Present Landmarks Skyscraper Tall Buildings

Book:On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change

Source: On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change