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Alexander Pope
Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; Bliss is the same in subject or in king.
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Anonymous
The massive gates of circumstance Are turned upon the smallest hinge, And thus some seeming pettiest chance Oft gives our life its after-tinge. The trifles of our daily lives, The common things, scarce worth recall, Whereof no visible trace survives, These are the mainsprings after all.
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Benjamin Disraeli
Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men.
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Bertrand Russell
If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.
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C.P. Scott
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Cotton Fitzsimmons
Whether you're winning or losing, it is important to always be yourself. You can't change because of the circumstances around you.
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Daniel Webster
F.M. The Duke of Wellington presents his compliments to Mr. ------ and declines to interfere in circumstances over which he has no control.
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Earl Nightingale
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
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Edward Young
Who does the best that circumstance allows, Does well, acts nobly, angels could no more.
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Horace Quintus Horatius Flaccus
And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.
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J. Smith John Smith of Cambridge
How comes it to pass, if they be only moved by chance and accident, that such regular mutations and generations should be begotten by a fortuitous concourse of atoms.
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James Allen
Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.
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