Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door.
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This is sometimes said to be by Torquato Tasso, and sometimes to be a quotation from Goethe's verse play Torquato Tasso, but it is from Joseph Jacobs' translation of Baltasar Gracián's Oráculo manual y arte de prudencia , maxim no. 59. In the original Spanish: Pocas veces acompa?a la dicha a los que salen.Torquato Tasso
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When one door closes, fortune will usually open another.
Fernando de Rojas
Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy.
Miguel de Cervantes
Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.
Margot Asquith
We rarely recognize how wonderful it is that a person can traverse an entire lifetime without making a single really serious mistake—like putting a fork in one's eye or using a window instead of a door.
Marvin Minsky
Good fortune and a good disposition are rarely given to the same man.
Livy
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