#tune

It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others. ↗

— Publilius Syrus

#caution #good #good thing #learn #misfortunes

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#fortune #happy #merit #miserable #only

The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune. ↗

— Charles R. Swindoll

#devastating #lot #misfortune #more #sudden

Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#deny #fortune #group #i #inspiration

It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure. ↗

— Tacitus

#difficult #less #misfortunes #pleasure #remain

Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure. ↗

— Tacitus

#difficult #less #measure #misfortune #pleasure

It is the fortunate who should extol fortune. ↗

— Torquato Tasso

#fortunate #fortune #should #who

No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition. ↗

— Jeremy Taylor

#desires #does #fortune #full #himself

Fortune favors the brave. ↗

— Terence

#favors #fortune

I've heard some tunes in recent years that were pretty close to that same idea. The idea was you turn on the radio and you want to hear some music and up comes a commercial. ↗

— Mose Allison

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