Fortune Quotes
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Those who merely possess the goods of fortune may be haughty and insolent; . . . they try to imitate the great-souled man without being really like him, and only copy him in what they can, reproducing his contempt for others but not his virtuous conduct. For the great-souled man is justified in despising other people - his estimates are correct; but most proud men have no good ground for their pride.
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Take the road where the eagle flies, man follows where his fortune lies.
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Mexico's making a fortune off the United States.
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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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Fear Allah, for that is fortune; indifference to Allah is misfortune.
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No man actually owns a fortune. It owns him.
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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.
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Fortune may have yet a better success in reserve for you and they who lose today may win tomorrow.
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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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You know sometimes football turns on the slightest biscuit of good fortune.
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Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.
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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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When Fortune knocks, open the door,' they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut?
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I still follow Chelsea's fortunes.
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He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.
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Think before you act and then act decisively. Fortune favors the brave.
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Fortune is painted blind, with a muffler afore her eyes, to signify to you that Fortune is blind.
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One good idea is all you need to start a fortune.
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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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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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The author wishes to thank: Good fortune, Godiva chocolates, and Slim-Fast
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When a man is a favorite of Fortune she never takes him unawares, and, however astonishing her favors may be, she finds him ready.
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The truth brings no man a fortune.
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...the Musgroves had had the ill fortune of a very troublesome, hopeless son, and the good fortune to lose him before he reached his twentieth year.
