Fortune Quotes
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We are sure to get the better of fortune if we do but grapple with her.
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Men may second fortune, but they cannot thwart her.
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Someone responding to intuition, to chance and fortune, often can't explain himself well.
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None can hold fortune still and make it last.
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The aggregation of large fortunes is not at all a thing to be regretted.
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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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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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You can change your character and, at the same time, change your fortune.
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Man makes circumstances, and spiritually as well as economically, is the artificer of his own fortune.
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It's hard to tell our bad luck from our good luck sometimes. And most of us have wept copious tears over someone or something when if we'd understood the situation better we might have celebrated our good fortune instead.
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Fortune dreads the brave, and is only terrible to the coward.
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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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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.
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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.
