Tacitus Quotes
It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
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For all of my fortune, there are many with misfortune that need a hand.
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He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.
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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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A high-brow is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.
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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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A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.
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Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.
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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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But,' he thinks, 'it's possible to die before you die.
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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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One good idea is all you need to start a fortune.
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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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Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.
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But sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
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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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Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way.
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Fortune is an evil chain to the body, and vice to the soul.
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Man makes circumstances, and spiritually as well as economically, is the artificer of his own fortune.
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A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.
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Dame Fortune is a fickle gipsy, And always blind, and often tipsy; Sometimes for years and years together, She 'll bless you with the sunniest weather, Bestowing honour, pudding, pence, You can't imagine why or whence; Then in a moment Presto, pass! Your joys are withered like the grass
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The rainiest nights, like the rainiest lives, are by no means the saddest.
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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
