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S. Austin Allibone, comp.  Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay.  1880.
 
Opportunity
 
  Every one has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.
Jeremy Collier.    
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  Opportunity has hair in front, behind she is bald: if you seize her by the forelock you may hold her, but, if suffered to escape, not Jupiter himself can catch her again.
From the Latin.    
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  Opportunity is in respect to time, in some sense, as time is in respect to eternity: it is the small moment, the exact point, the critical minute, on which every good work so much depends.
Thomas Sprat.    
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