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Sometimes the small instants, fleeting yet exquisite, lead us on discovers unseen; in the impractical waltzing of the unexpected we whisper finally introductions to whom we'll become.
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Mariella Soldati
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Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.
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Johann Zimmermann
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Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.
Author:
Walt Whitman
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The responsibilities which are imposed by rank and privilege and good fortune can... become very onerous indeed.
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Robert Welch
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One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.
Author:
Lew Wallace
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Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us.
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Vincent Voiture
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Fortune favours the bold.
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Virgil
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Fortune sides with him who dares.
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Virgil
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Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.
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Virgil
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The greatest good fortune of my return to Cambridge in 1946 was that there, in the spring, I met Elizabeth Fay Ringo. We were married a few months later.
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James Tobin
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From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
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Tecumseh
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No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition.
Author:
Jeremy Taylor
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It is the fortunate who should extol fortune.
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Torquato Tasso
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Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door.
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Torquato Tasso
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Fortune is like glass - the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.
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Publilius Syrus
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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
Author:
Robert Stevenson
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When Fortune smiles, I smile to think how quickly she will frown.
Author:
Robert Southwell
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Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
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Sophocles
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Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.
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William Shakespeare
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A great mind becomes a great fortune.
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Lucius Seneca
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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Lucius Seneca
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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.
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Arthur Schopenhauer
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Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
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Sallust
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We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.
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Jean Rousseau
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Fortune converts everything to the advantage of her favorites.
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Francois Rochefoucauld
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There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality its left.
Author:
John Ray
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Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune.
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Raymond Queneau
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It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
Author:
Petrarch
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Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
Author:
Laurence Peter
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The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.
Author:
John Mortimer
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No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.
Author:
Mary Montagu
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I've had ample contact with lawyers, and I'm convinced that the only fortune they ever leave is their own.
Author:
Wilson Mizner
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At this moment, by an undeserved stroke of fortune, I am the direct voice of the poets of my race and the indirect voice for the noble Spanish and Portuguese tongues.
Author:
Gabriela Mistral
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The more we take the less we become, the fortune of one man means less for some.
Author:
Sarah McLachlan
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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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Marcus Martial
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Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.
Author:
James Lowell
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The result showed that fortune helps the brave.
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Titus Livius
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It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task.
Author:
Titus Livius
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I had the good fortune of speaking with Orson Wells many decades ago and he said 'Success is primarily luck anyway.' And I have been very lucky. Of course, Orson Wells was enormously talented and brilliant - so who am I to argue with him!
Author:
George Kennedy
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Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.
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Ben Jonson
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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.
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James Johnson
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Make haste! The tide of Fortune soon ebbs.
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Silius Italicus
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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.
Author:
Horace
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If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.
Author:
Horace
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The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.
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Herodotus
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Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past.
Author:
Francis Hedge
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Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune.
Author:
Thomas Gray
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It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.
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Ulysses Grant
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I jumped off the wheel of fortune because I wanted to simplify things. Now I've fulfilled my obligations to myself by making my new record. I'd like it to sell millions of copies, but my self - worth is not based on chart positions.
Author:
Roland Gift
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The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.
Author:
J. Getty
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He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.
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Benjamin Franklin
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Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.
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Euripides
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Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.
Author:
Maria Edgeworth
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No matter what your laundry list of requirements in choosing a mate, there has to be an element of good luck and good fortune and good timing.
Author:
Patty Duke
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It is strange, but nobody is shocked when pop singers make a fortune in the space of two years.
Author:
Placido Domingo
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Fortune befriends the bold.
Author:
Emily Dickinson
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When Elvis was performing, you just tried to figure out a way to get there. I think he set all the records and anyone that has ever had the good fortune to see him, you know what it's like to try to get in to see Elvis. It was impossible, practically.
Author:
Jackie DeShannon
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I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.
Author:
Marcus Cicero
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The songs certainly have not made my fortune, but I am still grateful for the royalties when they come in.
Author:
Sydney Carter
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A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.
Author:
Thomas Carlyle
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
Author:
Thomas Carlyle
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I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.
Author:
Lord Byron
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Your fortune is not something to find but to unfold.
Author:
Eric Butterworth
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I don't need to make a fortune, I need to survive.
Author:
Solomon Burke
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A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
Author:
Bodhidharma
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Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
Author:
Ambrose Bierce
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Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
Author:
Francis Bacon
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The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
Author:
Francis Bacon
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Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, "This is a misfortune" but "To bear this worthily is good fortune."
Author:
Marcus Aurelius
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Fortune is either with you or it's not.
Author:
Tom Araya
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The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.
Author:
Joseph Addison
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