Circumstances

"And circumstance, that unspiritual god, And miscreator, makes and helps along Our coming evils, with a critch-like rod, Whose touch turns hope to dust—the dust we all have trod."

"Men are the sport of circumstances, when The circumstances seem the sport of men."

"Circumstances beyond my individual control."

"To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives."

"Man without religion is the creature of circumstances. Religion is above all circumstances, and will lift him up above them."

"Events are the true schoolmasters."

"Condition, circumstance is not the thing."

"The Lie with Circumstance."

"My circumstances Being so near the truth as I will make them, Must first induce you to believe."

"Leave frivolous circumstances."

"And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance."

"Who does the best that circumstance allows, Does well, acts nobly, angels could no more."

"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."

"Epicureans, that ascribed the origin and frame of the world not to the power of God, but to the fortuitous concourse of atoms."

"I am the very slave of circumstance And impulse—borne away with every breath."

"Odd instances of strange coincidence."

"The long arm of coincidence."

"Nulla cogente natura, sed concursu quodam fortuito."

"Thus neither the praise nor the blame is our own."

"Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men."

"It is circumstances (difficulties) which show what men are."

"Circumstances alter cases."

"Man, without religion, is the creature of circumstances."

"Thus we see, too, in the world that some persons assimilate only what is ugly and evil from the same moral circumstances which supply good and beautiful results—the fragrance of celestial flowers—to the daily life of others."

"Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor."

"Quid velit et possit rerum concordia discors."

"For these attacks do not contribute to make us frail but rather show us to be what we are."

"Consilia res magis dant hominibus quam homines rebus."

"Man is the creature of circumstances."

"Accidental and fortuitous concourse of atoms."

"The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances."

"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."

"In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us."

"Aliena nobis, nostra plus aliis placent."

"Varia sors rerum."

"So runs the round of life from hour to hour."

"This fearful concatenation of circumstances."

"F. M. the Duke of Wellington presents his compliments to Mr. —— and declines to interfere in circumstances over which he has no control."