“Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.”
Francis Bacon book Essays
Of Fortune
Essays (1625)
“There are fortunes to be made out of bristle for a man with deft hands.”
— Lindsey Davis, book The Iron Hand of Mars
The Iron Hand of Mars
Context: Stick with it, Xanthus. There are fortunes to be made out of bristle for a man with deft hands.
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Shape breeding shape beneath his restless hand.
(The soul without still helps the soul within,
And its deft magic ends what we begin.)
Nay, in his dreams his hammer he would wield
And seem to see a myriad types revealed,
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Would rush to labor with that plastic zeal
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Of various forms, which, flung upon the earth,
Seemed harmless toys to cheat the exacting hour,
But were as seeds instinct with hidden power.