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Luck is not chance - It's Toil - Fortune's expensive smile Is earned


Emily Dickinson

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Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.
EMILY DICKINSON Luck is not chance, it is toil. Fortune is expensive smile is earned.
EMILY DICKINSON Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.
EMILY DICKINSON Emily Dickinson sublimely unnames even the blanks.
HAROLD BLOOM I think the future deserves our faith. But it is hard to argue with Emily Dickinson.
JOHN GREEN Your life is expensive to those who loves you, so take care of your life.
NEHA KOTHARI Why is love so expensive even when it exists everywhere?
NEHA KOTHARI You have taken the step to cross the road, cross it. One step back can bring you an accident.
NEHA KOTHARI The Brain - is wider than the Sky -
For - put them side by side -
The one the other will c...
EMILY DICKINSON open me carefully
EMILY DICKINSON When you come home, darling, I shant have your letters, but I shall have yourself, which is more-- o...
EMILY DICKINSON I need you more and more, and the great world grows wider, and dear ones fewer and fewer, every day ...
EMILY DICKINSON I guess I'm not like Emily Dickinson who keeps things wrapped up in a ribbon in their top drawer.
JEFF BRIDGES Some readers may be disturbed that I wrote 'The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson' in Emily'...
JEROME CHARYN Any conversation including the mention of Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, or Emily Dickinson is one worth ...
DON ROFF Oh phosphorescence. Now there’s a word to lift your hat to... To find that phosphorescence, that l...
WILLIAM LUCE She died--this was the way she died;
And when her breath was done,
Took up her simple ward...
EMILY DICKINSON How wrong Emily Dickinson was! Hope is not "the thing with feathers." The thing with feathers has tu...
WOODY ALLEN I have a little tiny Emily Dickinson so big that I carry in my pocket everywhere. And you just read ...
MAURICE SENDAK I was not really aware of the dystopian genre before I read 'The Handmaid's Tale.' Many ...
SAMANTHA SHANNON Poetry. I read Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Jane Hirschfield. I like to read Billy Collins out...
AMY TAN She could become a spinster, like Emily Dickinson, writing poems full of dashes and brilliance, and ...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES There are rules to luck, not everything is chance for the wise; luck can be helped by skill.
BALTASAR GRACIáN I think more influential than Emily Dickinson or Coleridge or Wordsworth on my imagination were Warn...
BILLY COLLINS Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.
BALTASAR GRACIAN Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.
JOHN RAY Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD I love the idea of the 'vignette,' which is associated with the decorative, illustrative, sm...
KATE BERNHEIMER I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,
And Mourners to and fro
Kept treading – treading – till...
EMILY DICKINSON Luck is being ready for the chance.
J. FRANK DOBLE I have so many favorite writers, it's very hard to select a few... of classic writers, I have al...
JOYCE CAROL OATES We all want to trust someone ,but we all think that what we see is real and the truth but if we trul...
GARY F EVANS... Money is not everything.
BEN OAK The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, ...
MARY MCCARTHY Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.
AMY TAN Those who wait for luck to turn their fortunes around, have a long wait before them.
MUHAMMED HAIDER As Americans, we realize that there is no taxpayer money that wasn't first earned through the sw...
RICK PERRY World is full of people waiting to pursue their passion, if given a chance.
Unfortunately, the...
MANOJ ARORA There is no thing known as bad luck. There is luck, or no luck at all.
JEFFREY FRY When I think of Emily Dickinson, there's not one particular poem of hers that jumps out, but I d...
MALLORY ORTBERG A woman's best curve is her smile, her best makeup is her confidence, and her most expensive garment...
JAMILA MARIE BOOTHE Emily Dickinson never developed. She remained loyal to her persona and to that same little metrical ...
BILLY COLLINS If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching...
EMILY DICKINSON A simple race! they waste their toil For the vain tribute of a smile
SIR WALTER SCOTT God is not pleased with these mashed potato Christians. You know the kind that are found in the T.V....
LAMAR THOMPSON What is luck? It is not only chance, it is also creating the opportunity, recognizing it when it is ...
NATASHA JOSEFOWITZ Success is always a matter of some luck and timing.
KATHLEEN KENNEDY I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.
STEPHEN WRIGHT Million-to-one chances...crop up nine times out of ten.
TERRY PRATCHETT Give luck a chance to happen.
TOM KITE My first three years I had injuries and bad luck a little bit. Now is a good chance to show what kin...
JIRI NOVOTNY It's hard to detect good luck - it looks so much like something you've earned.
FRANK A. CLARK You yawn to equalize the pressure on your eardrums. This pressure change outside your eardrums unb...
WHY YAWNING IS CONTAGIOUS Be original, be yourself, be you.
ELISE R MAUDE IS The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in l...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment, it is not in l...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.
CHARLES READE Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.
JOHN RAY The product is very expensive but it is worth its money in certain sub-groups of patients but not fo...
MATTIAS NEYT This false distance is present everywhere: in spy films, in Godard, in modern advertising, which use...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD No matter whether you believe in luck or chance, the final decision is from yourself.
STEPHEN RICHARDS [The Republican leadership is] trying to salvage its flagging fortunes by making the energy industry...
IAIN MURRAY Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.
GOETHE You know who my gods are, who I believe in fervently? Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson - she's p...
MAURICE SENDAK If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best.
ROBERT SIAHAAN Szerzetesek, vannak tanulatlan, közönséges emberek, akik nem gondolnak a nemes dolgokkal, nem hal...
GAUTAMA BUDDHA És Brahmá, a Teremtő, felső ruháját fél vállán átvetve, összetett kézzel meghajolt a Mag...
GAUTAMA BUDDHA Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
EARL WILSON Stocks remain richly valued as a multiple of earnings. If earnings do not accurately represent the f...
DORSEY FARR The was something very satisfying about a smile that had to be earned.
KASIE WEST The public health of five million children should not be left to luck or chance.
JAMIE OLIVER What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great for...
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE Mens fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.
HERODOTUS Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever
HERODOTUS Luck relies on chance, labor on character.
RICHARD COBDEN The world that we live in is a weakness. To continuously live in an environment that weakens you, on...
APURVA GAGLANI What is the most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great...
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE I love Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. I also love more cerebral poets like H.D. and Emily Dickinson. ...
FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK What I treasure most at any moment is intimacy, surprise, a sense of mystery, wit, depth and love. A...
PICO IYER Ques eso? Queso?
NOLAN J. VANDER HAAGEN if you love someone,you did not think if it was right...all you know was you love the person so much...
VERONICA LAPPAY Life is what it is supposed to be, its just not always what you want it to be...
DANIEL GILMAN Sunset is the wail of Time and sunrise is its smile.
SORIN CERIN When you have a baby, love is automatic, when you get married, love is earned.
MARIE OSMOND It's hard to detect good luck - it looks so much like something you've earned.
FRANK A. CLARK Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
ANATOLE FRANCE Luck is only important insofar as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After tha...
FRANK SINATRA Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it, ther...
OVID He earned himself a chance to stay around a little longer.
JAY FEASTER Respect is not ever assigned; it's earned.
LINDA TRIPP The chance to do it over again is called now.
J.R. RIM Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever...
HERODOTUS Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM Authors I've longed to write like - but realize I actually can't even begin to - include Poe...
HELEN OYEYEMI It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the gr...
HERMAN MELVILLE Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the gr...
HERMAN MELVILLE Return on equity is not a guaranteed rate of return. In fact, the company since 1998 hasn't earned a...
DAVE ESKELSEN For the Left, affluence is won, not earned.
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...
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EMILY DICKINSON Unable are the loved to die for love is immortality.
EMILY DICKINSON Anger as soon as fed is dead — 'Tis starving makes it fat.
EMILY DICKINSON Without suspecting our abode until we drive away.
EMILY DICKINSON That it shall never come again is what makes life so sweet
EMILY DICKINSON Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will n...
EMILY DICKINSON One need not be a chamber to be haunted; / One need not be a house; /The brain has corridors surpass...
EMILY DICKINSON We never know where we go when we are going, We jest and shut the door; Fate - following behind us -...
EMILY DICKINSON How dreary - to be - somebody! How public - like a frog - to tell your name - the livelong June - to...
EMILY DICKINSON When it comes, the Landscape listens - Shadows - hold their breath - When it goes, 'tis like the Dis...
EMILY DICKINSON