Fortune Quotes
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Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way.
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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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The truth brings no man a 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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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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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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Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.
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I still follow Chelsea's fortunes.
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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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There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.
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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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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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Fortune is painted blind, with a muffler afore her eyes, to signify to you that Fortune is blind.
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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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Nothing of fame or fortune can compensate for the spiritual suffering that one possessing such qualities has to endure.
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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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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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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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Sponsors, corporate endowments, and the heritage of the big fortunes would take care of financing cultural projects when American society was homogeneous. Now it's too complex, it's a mix. Different cultures in collision. I think it starts to be necessary to have a government institution to deal with cultural affairs.
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Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
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To have a happy ending, choose a happy moment and call it 'the ending'. Honesty is incompatible with the amassing of a large fortune.
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I had the great fortune to actually become friends with Sam [Fuller] and ultimately collaborate with him on White Dog, which we wrote together.
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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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Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.
