Fortune Quotes
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Fortune tellers live in the future. So do people who want to put things off. So do fundamentalists.
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T is fortune gives us birth, But Jove alone endues the soul with worth.
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A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.
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One of the greatest of a great man's qualities is success; 't is the result of all the others; 't is a latent power in him which compels the favor of the gods, and subjugates fortune.
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Fortune dreads the brave, and is only terrible to the coward.
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Men may second fortune, but they cannot thwart her.
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Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.
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Someone responding to intuition, to chance and fortune, often can't explain himself well.
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To each is given a certain inward talent, a certain outward environment or fortune; to each by wisest combination of these two, a certain maximum capacity.
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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 mind unruffled by the vagaries of fortune, from sorrow freed, from defilements cleansed, from fear liberated - this is the greatest blessing.
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It is often the easiest move that completes the game. Fortune is like the lady whom a lover carried off from all his rivals by putting an additional lace upon his liveries.
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You can change your character and, at the same time, change your fortune.
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Fortune is said to be blind, but her favorites never are. Ambition has the eye of the eagle, prudence that of the lynx; the first looks through the air, the last along the ground.
