Fortune Quotes
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A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.
Benjamin Rush
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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.
Mahatma Gandhi
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A prince indebted is a fortune made.
Edward Joseph Young
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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.
Bill Clinton
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Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes.
Charlotte Bronte
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Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
Seneca the Younger
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O fortune, fortune! all men call thee fickle.
William Shakespeare
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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.
Aristotle
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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.
Francis Quarles
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Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good – fortune.
William Hazlitt
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I had the good fortune early on to cast some really great people that were not just characters, they had character.
Don Coscarelli
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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.
Charlotte Bronte
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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.
Demosthenes
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Behind every fortune there is a crime.
Honore de Balzac
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Honorable retreats are no ways inferior to brave charges, as having less fortune, more of discipline, and as much valor
Christopher Hart
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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.
Confucius
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Good fortune then! To make me blest or cursed'st among men.
William Shakespeare
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The short fortune-teller who escaped from prison: a small medium at large.
Ryan Ross Panic! at the Disco
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I find my zenith doth depend upon A most auspicious star, whose influence If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes Will ever after droop.
William Shakespeare
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For me, it [Crimea] is not borders and state territories that matter, but people's fortunes.
Vladimir Putin
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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.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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One should never risk one's whole fortune unless supported by one's entire forces.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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May I always have a heart superior, with economy suitable, to my fortune.
William Shenstone
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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.
Plutarch