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Letter "O" » Opportunity
"A thousand year a poor man watched
Before the gate of Paradise:
But while one little nap he snatched,
It oped and shut. Ah! was he wise?"
Author: William R. Alger
About: Opportunity
"There is an hour in each man's life appointed
To make his happiness, if then he seize it."
Author: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
About: Opportunity
"Observe the opportunity."
Author: Bible
About: Opportunity
"Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you
hold well."
Author: Bible
About: Opportunity
"This could but have happened once,
And we missed it, lost it forever."
Author: Robert Browning
About: Opportunity
"He that will not when he may,
When he will he shall have nay."
Author: Robert Burton
About: Opportunity
"Let nothing pass which will advantage you;
Hairy in front, Occasion's bald behind.
[Lat., Rem tibi quam nosces aptam dimittere noli;
Fronte capillata, post est occasio calva.]"
Author: Dionysius Cato
About: Opportunity
"There is a nick in Fortune's restless wheel
For each man's good."
Author: George Chapman
About: Opportunity
"Holding occasion by the hand,
Not over nice 'twixt weed and flower,
Waiving what none can understand,
I make mine hour."
Author: John Vance Cheney
About: Opportunity
"Ring the bells that still can ring.
Forget your perfect offering.
There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in."
Author: Leonard Cohen
About: Opportunity
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