Essay

 1        8|  children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments
 2        9|          by depressing another’s fortune.~A man that is busy, and
 3        9|       are less envied. For their fortune seemeth, but due unto them;
 4        9|          most envied, when their fortune continueth long. For by
 5        9|          not much added to their fortune; and envy is as the sunbeams,
 6        9|           a man doth but disavow fortune; and seemeth to be conscious
 7       13|       people, but presseth their fortune. It is well, when nobles
 8       13|           in time, to be weak in fortune, it maketh a kind of disproportion,
 9       18|        but to try masteries with fortune. And let men beware, how
10       19|         tossed upon the waves of fortune; and be full of inconstancy,
11       20|                        OF DELAYS~Fortune is like the market; where
12       22|          the peril of the public fortune. But it is a desperate evil,
13       22|     after the model of their own fortune; but the hurt they sell
14       22|          model of their master’s fortune. And certainly it is the
15       22| sacrifices to the inconstancy of fortune, whose wings they thought,
16       23|      that holpen, takes it for a fortune, and thanks the time; and
17       26|         of the distance of their fortune from that of their subjects
18       26|    damage both of their fame and fortune: for, as St. James saith,
19       28|      estate in power, means, and fortune. But be the workmen what
20       33|        serve their own turn. The fortune in being the first, in an
21       39|                               OF FORTUNE~It cannot be denied, but
22       39|        accidents conduce much to fortune; favor, opportunity, death
23       39|    chiefly, the mould of a man’s fortune is in his own hands. Faber
24       39|         folly of one man, is the fortune of another. For no man prospers
25       39|        virtues, that bring forth fortune; certain deliveries of a
26       39|       way with the wheels of his fortune. For so Livy (after he had
27       39|        attentively, he shall see Fortune: for though she be blind,
28       39|        not invisible. The way of fortune, is like the Milken Way
29       39|        not his own way. An hasty fortune maketh an enterpriser and
30       39|      remuant); but the exercised fortune maketh the able man. Fortune
31       39|     fortune maketh the able man. Fortune is to be honored and respected,
32       39|   ascribe them to Providence and Fortune; for so they may the better
33       39|        this speech, and in this, Fortune had no part, never prospered
34       39|     Plutarch saith of Timoleon’s fortune, in respect of that of Agesilaus