Fortune Quotes
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Mexico's making a fortune off the United States.
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Think before you act and then act decisively. Fortune favors the brave.
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Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
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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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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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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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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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A noble birth and fortune, though they make not a bad man good, yet they are a real advantage to a worthy one and place his virtues in a fairer light.
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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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Fortune, men say, doth give too much to many, But yet she never gave enough to any.
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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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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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...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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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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Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
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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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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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Nothing of fame or fortune can compensate for the spiritual suffering that one possessing such qualities has to endure.
