 Of prowess and conduct adequate To what our place and fame doth promise, And all the godly expect from us, Nor shall they be deceiv'd, unless We're slurr'd and outed by success; Success, the mark no mortal wit, Or surest hand can always hit...  Dick Turpin - Page 215by Henry Downes Miles - 1840 - 323 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1878 - 788 pages
...not in mortals to command success ; But we'll do more, Sempronius, — we'll deserve ADDISON: Cato. Success, the mark no mortal wit, Or surest hand, can...perpetrate, We do but row, we're steer'd by fate. BUTLER : Hudibras. Nor do the boldest 'tempts bring forth Events still equal to their worth, But sometimes... | |
 | Phineas Garrett - Readers - 1878 - 874 pages
...rust in peace, and rot in hospitals. Southern. A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. Success, the mark no mortal wit, Or surest hand, can...For, whatsoe'er we perpetrate, We do but row, we're steered by fate. Butler. Sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory. Diderot.... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1881 - 738 pages
...are to Fate ; Whom this morn sees most fortunate The ev'ning sees in poor estate. Herrick, Hesp. 459. Success, the mark no mortal wit, Or surest hand, can...We do but row — we're steer'd by fate, Which in success oft disinherits. For spurious causes, noblest merits. ' BuHer, Hud. ii 870. Let thy great deeds... | |
 | Woman - Booksellers and bookselling - 1881 - 362 pages
...and scorned everything in form of, worriment, knowing my way so surely to be one of future success. "Success, the mark no mortal wit, Or surest hand, can always hit." 11 So Hudibras said to his Squire Ralpho; but they were performing a more hopeless mission in that... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1883 - 782 pages
...Hamlet. Act v. Sc. 2 He must needs go that the devil drives. 1616 Shaks. : All's Well. Act( i. Sc. I! Success, the mark no mortal wit, Or surest hand, can...always hit; For whatsoe'er we perpetrate, We do but row — w'are stcer'd by fate, Which in success oft disinherits, For 'spurious causes, noblest merits.... | |
 | Recitations - 1884 - 780 pages
...rust in peace, and rot in hospitals. Southern. A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. Success, the mark no mortal wit, Or surest hand, can...For, whatsoe'er we perpetrate, We do but row, we're steered by fate. Sutler. Sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory. Diderot.... | |
 | Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - Caricatures and cartoons - 1890 - 670 pages
...character struggled with accidental depression, said : " Success, Mr. SPEAKER, is a mark no mortal wit of surest hand can always hit. For whatsoe'er we perpetrate, we do but row ; we are steered by fate, which in success often disinherits, for spurious causes, noblest merits.... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1891 - 556 pages
...Haliburton. FATE. DISBELIEF IN. Fate hath no voice but the heart's impulse. Schiller. GUIDANCE OF. Success, the mark no mortal wit, Or surest hand, can...perpetrate, We do but row ; we're steer'd by fate, Which in success oft disinherits, For spurious causes, noblest merits. Butler. HIDDEN. But God has wisely hidden... | |
 | American poetry - 1892 - 520 pages
...before me. ADDISON, Cato. To bear is to conquer our fate. CAMPBELL, On Visiting a Scene in Argyllshire. Success the mark no mortal wit, Or surest hand, can...always hit; For whatsoe'er we perpetrate, We do but row — w'are steer'd by fate, Which in success 6ft disinherits, For spurious causes, noblest merits. BUTLER,... | |
 | Poetry - 1892 - 524 pages
...before me. ADDISON, Calo. To bear is to conquer our fate. CAMPBELL, On l'isiting a Scene in Argyleshire. Success the mark no mortal wit, Or surest hand, can...hit; For whatsoe'er we perpetrate, We do but row— w' are steer' d by fate, Which in success oft disinherits, For spurious causes, noblest merits. BUTLER,... | |
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