{"collection":"etc","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/etc/mhs/mhs25.htm","path":"etc/mhs/mhs25.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/etc/mhs/mhs25.htm","text":"If Fortune favor you, be not elated;\n If she frown, do not despond.\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0--AUSONIUS.\nWhen Fortune means to men most good,\n She looks upon them with a threatening eye.\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0--King John, III. 4, 119.\nWhen smiling Fortune spreads her golden ray,\n All crowd around to flatter and obey;\n But when she thunders from the angry sky,\n Our friends, our flatterers, our lovers fly.\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0--OVID.\nSince Fortune is not in our power,\n Let us be as little as possible in hers.\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0--STEELE.","title":"The Magic of the Horseshoe: Fortune And Luck: Fortune And...","type":"page"}