William Somervile Quotes
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For all of my fortune, there are many with misfortune that need a hand.
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I think the worst thing that could have happened to me would have been having a hit at 20. I don't know what that would have done to me. But instead, I had to scrape a living for years. And my first show, which opened in 1969, lost over £45,000, an absolute fortune then.
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If you can fight directly with your mother, you can save a fortune in psychiatrist's bills.
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Virtue has her heroes tooAs well as Fame and Fortune.
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I got fame and fortune, and I lost my sense of reasoning.
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A candle throws its light into the darkness, in a nasty world so shines a good deed. Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.
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I still follow Chelsea's fortunes.
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I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind.
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Nothing of fame or fortune can compensate for the spiritual suffering that one possessing such qualities has to endure.
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The result was magnificent . . . I became the father of two girls and two boys, lovely children by good fortune they all look like my wife.
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I had the great fortune to actually become friends with Sam [Fuller] and ultimately collaborate with him on White Dog, which we wrote together.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone.
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If a man who is born to a fortune cannot make himself easier and freer than those who are not, he gains nothing.
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Those who merely possess the goods of fortune may be haughty and insolent; . . . they try to imitate the great-souled man without being really like him, and only copy him in what they can, reproducing his contempt for others but not his virtuous conduct. For the great-souled man is justified in despising other people - his estimates are correct; but most proud men have no good ground for their pride.
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Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
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Fortune always will confer an aura of worth, unworthily; and in this world The lucky person passes for a genius.
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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.
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Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.
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Watering the flowers and the trees, whispering to them, talking to them. Then, they will grow to be more bright and luxuriant.
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The last thing you would want is to have people housed in shelters, or later in trailers and mobile homes that would be the first things you have to evacuate in the event of another hurricane
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With all of you men out there who think that having a thousand different ladies is pretty cool, I have learned in my life I've found out that having one woman a thousand different times is much more satisfying.
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Fortune is like a widow won,And truckles to the bold alone.
