Fortune Quotes
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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 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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The short fortune-teller who escaped from prison: a small medium at large.
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For me, it [Crimea] is not borders and state territories that matter, but people's fortunes.
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I am the child of Fortune, the giver of good, and I shall not be shamed. She is my mother; my sisters are the Seasons; my rising and my falling match with theirs. Born thus, I ask to be no other man than that I am.
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May I always have a heart superior, with economy suitable, to my fortune.
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Fortune makes him fool, whom she makes her darling.
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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.
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Honorable retreats are no ways inferior to brave charges, as having less fortune, more of discipline, and as much valor
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Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes.
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Fortune had favoured me in this war that I feared, the rather, that some tempest would follow so favourable a gale.
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There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.
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Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way.
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Man is born for uprightness. If a man lose his uprightness and yet live, his escape from death is mere good fortune.
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Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of man.
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I think that fortune watcheth o'er our lives, surer than we. But well said: he who strives will find his goals strive for him equally.
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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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All the vices lead to fortune when they are joined with the vilest of all--avarice. This is the secret of life.
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In all well-attempered governments there is nothing which should be more jealously maintained than the spirit of obedience to law, more especially in small matters; for transgression creeps in unperceived and at last ruins the state, just as the constant recurrence of small expenses in time eats up a fortune.
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Everyone holds his fortune in his own hands, like a sculptor the raw material he will fashion into a figure. But it's the same with that type of artistic activity as with all others: We are merely born with the capability to do it. The Skill to mold the material into what we want must be learned and attentively cultivated.
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I'm still not sure what is meant by good fortune and success. I know fame and power are for the birds. But then life suddenly comes into focus for me. And, ah, there stand my kids.
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One should never risk one's whole fortune unless supported by one's entire forces.
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When you find Fortune favorable, stride boldly forward, for she favors the bold, and being a woman, the young.
