Fortune Quotes
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Fear Allah, for that is fortune; indifference to Allah is misfortune.
Umar
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Now conquering Rome doth conquered Rome inter, And she the vanquished is, and vanquisher. To show us where she stood there rests alone Tiber; and that too hastens to be gone. Learn, hence what fortune can. Towns glide away; And rivers, which are still in motion, stay.
Joachim du Bellay
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Snapchat's ramp reminded us of another mobile app Benchmark had the good fortune to back at an early stage: Instagram.
Mitch Lasky
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I now proceed to demonstrate that the Mexicans are wholly incapable of self-government, and that our liberties, our fortunes and our lives are insecure so long as we are connected with them.
William H. Wharton
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The thing of courage
As rous'd with rage doth sympathise,
And, with an accent tun'd in self-same key,
Retorts to chiding fortune.
William Shakespeare
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Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.
William Shakespeare
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Fortune may have yet a better success in reserve for you and they who lose today may win tomorrow.
Miguel de Cervantes
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He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works and of greatest merit for the public have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men, which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public. He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question, when a man should marry. A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.
Francis Bacon
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The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
Jonathan Swift
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When Fortune knocks, open the door,' they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut?
Idries Shah
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The author wishes to thank: Good fortune, Godiva chocolates, and Slim-Fast
Rachel Caine
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No man actually owns a fortune. It owns him.
Amadeo Giannini
