Fortune Quotes
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It is better to be bold than too circumspect, because fortune is of a sex which likes not a tardy wooer and repulses all who are not ardent.
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A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.
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The world is poor because her fortune is buried in the sky and all her treasure maps are of the earth.
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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.
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I've never had good fortune with sequels. Everyone says this time is going to be better. And then I've done them and they've just been not - they weren't better.
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Fact be vertuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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The only thing that I have done that is not mitigated by luck, diminished by good fortune, is that I persisted, and other people gave up.
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That power of the Gods which orders for the good things which are not uniform, and which happen contrary to expectation, is commonly called Fortune, and it is for this reason that the Goddess is especially worshipped in public by cities; for every city consists of elements which are not uniform.
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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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The souls of people, on their way to Earth-life, pass through a room full of lights; each takes a taper - often only a spark - to guide it in the dim country of this world. But some souls, by rare fortune, are detained longer - have time to grasp a handful of tapers, which they weave into a torch. These are the torch-bearers of humanity - its poets, seers and saints, who lead and lift the race out of darkness, toward the light. They are the law-givers and saviors, the light-bringers, way-showers and truth-tellers, and without them, humanity would lose its way in the dark.
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“Each man is the architect of his own fortune.”
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Let everyone witness how many different cards fortune has up her sleeve when she wants to ruin a man.
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We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.
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It's really the creature of my own making from top to bottom. I appreciate that. And the good fortune, the perseverance, having the stamina to stick around longer than everyone else even after people write you off - that's always been a good motivating force in my life.
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If a man who is born to a fortune cannot make himself easier and freer than those who are not, he gains nothing.
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Men are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them.
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I think cheerfulness is a fortune in itself.
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For two generations groups of women have given their lives and their fortunes to secure the vote for the sex and hundreds of thousands of other women are now giving all the time at their command. No class of men in our own or any other country has made one-tenth the effort nor sacrificed one-tenth as much for the vote.
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Fortune have somewhat the nature of a woman; if she be too much wooed, she is the farther off.
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If the loss of your fortune gains Christ for you, it will be a beautiful loss.
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Whatever we give to the wretched, we lend to fortune.
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It is not, after all, so very hard to acquire a fortune; the real difficulty is to deserve one.
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Fortune helps the intrepid and abandons the cowards. I am the daughter of a man who did not know of fear. Whatever may come, I am resolved to follow that course until death.
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Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
