Two sources of success are known: wisdom and effort; make them both thine own, if thou wouldst haply rise.

Māgha.

184.

The worse the ill that fate on noble souls

Inflicts, the more their firmness; and they arm

Their spirits with adamant to meet the blow.

Hindu Drama.

185.

Opportunities lose not, for all delay is madness;

’Mid bitter sorrow patience show, for ’tis the key of gladness.