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chance upon
«A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the fa?ade of his appearance.»
Author: Alanis Morisette
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at work, chance upon, gauche, myriad, preferring, stylish, take advantage
«The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon; but even the man of genius himself more frequently employs the advantages that chance presents to him;»
Author: Guillaume Thomas Raynal
(Writer)
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Genius,
Intelligence
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accidentally, advantages, anticipates, chance upon, employs, explores, former, frequently, hits, latter, presents
«One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world's end somewhere, and hold fast to the days, as to fortune or fame.»
Author: Willa Sibert Cather
(Author)
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by chance, chance upon, forecast, forecasting, forecasts, hold fast, stumbles
«And David said unto the young man that told him, How knowest thou that Saul and Jonathan his son be dead? / And the young man that told him said, As I happened by chance upon mount Gilboa, behold, Saul leaned upon his spear; and, lo, the chariots and horsemen followed hard after him.»
«If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young: / But thou shalt in any wise let the dam go, and take the young to thee; that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days.»
«It costs me never a stab nor squirm / To tread by chance upon a worm. / Aha, my little dear, / I say, Your clan will pay me back one day.»
«I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen.»
«The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.»
Author: Seneca
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certainty, chance upon, delay, depend upon, expectation, Great Expectations, let go, relinquish, relinquished, relinquishing, uncertainty
«What I like, or one of the things I like, about motoring is the sense it gives one of lighting accidentally, like a voyager who touches another planet with the tip of his toe, upon scenes which would have gone on, have always gone on, will go on, unrecorded, save for this chance glimpse. Then it seems to me I am allowed to see the heart of the world uncovered for a moment.»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
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accidentally, another planet, chance upon, glimpse, lighting, light touch, motoring, scenes, sense of touch, tip, toe, touches, uncovered, uncovering, uncovers, unrecorded, voyager, voyagers