Canvas Quote by William Cowper

In adversity be spirited and firm, and with equal prudence lessen your sail when filled with a too fortunate gale of prosperity.

— Horace

“Fortune, how fickle and how vain thou art,”

— Patrick Branwell Brontë

Before thy undertaking of any design, weigh the glory of thy action with the danger of the attempt; if the glory outweigh the danger,…

— Francis Quarles

Whatever it be, every fortune is to be overcome by bearing it

— Virgil

Yield not thy neck To fortune's yoke, but let thy dauntless mind Still ride in triumph over all mischance. In the difficult are the…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

In the height of thy prosperity expect adversity, but fear it not. If it come not, thou art the more sweetly possessed of the…

— Francis Quarles

And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.

— Jules Verne

Here must thou be, O man, Strength to thyself - no helper hast thou here - Here keepest thou thy individual state: No other…

— William Wordsworth

One should never pursue the hazards of fortune to their very ends andit behooves all adventurers to treat their good luck with reverence, neither…

— Francois Rabelais

Beware Of entrance to a quarrel; but being in, Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee. Give every man thy ear, but few…

— William Shakespeare

“The wheel of Fortune turns one way and another, taking us to the heights or the depths. That is the great wheel on which…

— Ned Hayes

“Virtue, should there be anyone who still ignores the fact, always finds pitfalls on the extremely difficult path of perfection, but sin and vice…

— José Saramago