Fortune Quotes
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Fortune is proverbially called changeful, yet her caprice often takes the form of repeating again and again a similar stroke of luck in the same quarter.
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Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.
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So weary with disasters, tugg'd with fortune, That I would set my life on any chance, To mend, or be rid on't.
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The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity belonging to them.
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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.
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He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.
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Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
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Take the road where the eagle flies, man follows where his fortune lies.
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Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.
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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.
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Extraordinary beauty can be a curse to the one who possesses it. one pays a dear price for fame and fortune
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One good idea is all you need to start a fortune.
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I hold strongly to this: that it is better to be impetuous than circumspect; because fortune is a woman and if she is to be submissive it is necessary to beat and coerce her.
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No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.
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Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way.
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Fear Allah, for that is fortune; indifference to Allah is misfortune.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone.
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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.
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What else may hap, to time I will commit.
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A prince indebted is a fortune made.
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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.
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Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.
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No man actually owns a fortune. It owns him.
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When fortune wishes to bring mighty events to a successful conclusion, she selects some man of spirit and ability who knows how to seize the opportunity she offers.
