Fortune Quotes
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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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O fortune, fortune! all men call thee fickle.
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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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Behind every fortune there is a crime.
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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 makes him fool, whom she makes her darling.
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A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.
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For me, it [Crimea] is not borders and state territories that matter, but people's fortunes.
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Good fortune opens the hand as well as the heart wonderfully; and to give somewhat when we have largely received, but to afford a vent to the unusual ebullition of the sensations.
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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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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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Honorable retreats are no ways inferior to brave charges, as having less fortune, more of discipline, and as much valor
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The man who is in the highest state of prosperity, and who thinks his fortune is most secure, knows not if it will remain unchanged till the evening.
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The story of practically every great fortune starts with the day when a creator of ideas and a seller of ideas got together and worked in harmony.
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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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I suppose I arrived at my charitable commitment largely through guilt. I recognized early on that my good fortune was not due to superior personal character or initiative so much as it was to dumb luck.
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Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.
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One should never risk one's whole fortune unless supported by one's entire forces.
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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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We've shown again and again, in every UN report on the status of women, that wherever women control their own bodies and have access to education, societies prosper. Men's fortunes go up, children's fortunes go up. This is not news - it's been proven repeatedly. Anywhere those things are threatened, we have to defend them.
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Good fortune then! To make me blest or cursed'st among men.
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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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Great is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property.
