Fortune Quotes
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Mexico's making a fortune off the United States.
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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.
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Think before you act and then act decisively. Fortune favors the brave.
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Time is the only capital of those who just have their inteligence as fortune.
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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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Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.
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For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who have created a fortune value their money, not merely for its uses, like other persons, but because it is their own production. This makes them moreover disagreeable companions, because they will praise nothing but riches.
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I still follow Chelsea's fortunes.
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The truth brings no man a fortune.
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Before I was fourteen I planned to leave school forever, and trust to fortune to get an education. At that time it did not occur to me that I would need to study the English language and acquire a knowledge of geography, history and other subjects so necessary to understanding the modern world. That was to come many years later…
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It was Mario Cuomo's great gift and our good fortune that he was both a sterling orator and a passionate public servant. His life was a blessing.
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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.
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I always just wanted to have the wherewithal to make another record. I never really dreamt of fortune or fame, because it seemed so unlikely. I'm much more interested in people's perceptions of me than what my life is really like. It appears that some people think it's all cocaine and caviar for Okkervil River. And it's not. I'm making a little bit more than I was making at the video store right now.
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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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The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
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Fortune, men say, doth give too much to many, But yet she never gave enough to any.
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O fortune, fortune! all men call thee fickle.
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There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.
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The world is apt to judge of everything by the success; and whoever has ill fortune will hardly be allowed a good name.
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Behind every fortune there is a crime.
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Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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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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Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
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Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, how to be free from it, that's the point. Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.
