Fortune Quotes
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It's up to brave hearts, sir, to be patient when things are going badly, as well as being happy when they're going well ... For I've heard that what they call fortune is a flighty woman who drinks too much, and, what's more, she's blind, so she can't see what she's doing, and she doesn't know who she's knocking over or who she's raising up.
Miguel de Cervantes
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It is not, after all, so very hard to acquire a fortune; the real difficulty is to deserve one.
Chapman Cohen
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True love is love that stays constant for ever, whatever it's fortune; whether requited or scored, filled or sent empty away.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Once you finish a book, you let it go out into the world to seek its fortune.
Susan Hill
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On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
Alexandre Dumas
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Many dream not to find, neither deserve, and yet are steeped in favors.
William Shakespeare
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My first contact with game theory was a popular article in 'Fortune Magazine' which I read in my last high school year. I was immediately attracted to the subject matter, and when I studied mathematics, I found the fundamental book by von Neumann and Morgenstern in the library and studied it.
Reinhard Selten
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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
Winthrop Mackworth Praed
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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.
Seneca the Younger
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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.
Miguel de Cervantes
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Now the fair goddess, Fortune,
Fall deep in love with thee, and her great charms
Misguide thy opposers' swords!
William Shakespeare
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I have often noticed that when Fate has a phenomenal run of ill luck in store for you, she begins by dropping a rare piece of good fortune into your lap, thereby enhancing the artistic effect of the sequel.
Ethel Smyth
