Fortune Quotes
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Let us not ask for miracles, let us not ask for concern with what is good for the country of him who comes as a stranger to make his fortune and leave afterwards.
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Fortune reigns in gifts of the world.
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May I always have a heart superior, with economy suitable, to my fortune.
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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.
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Therever fortune clears a way, thither our ready footsteps stray.
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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.
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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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Any one who is prosperous may by the turn of fortune's wheel become most wretched before evening.
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India's fortune will depend on how many runs the little champion scores. There is no doubt Tendulkar is the real thing.
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But assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raised to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated principle.
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Look how men live, always precariously balanced between good and bad fortune.
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Every person - with his or her own skills, abilities and uniqueness - can contribute to others and bring great joy to those that fortune has not smiled upon.
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My third maxim was to try always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and to change my desires rather than the order of the world, and generally to accustom myself to believing that there is nothing entirely in our power except our thoughts, so that after we have done our best regarding things external to us, everything in which we do not succeed is for us absolutely impossible.
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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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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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Referring to a wealthy miser he said, "He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him."
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Las Vegas, Nevada: A city where oddities don't make you lame, But instead bring you riches and fortune and fame.
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Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.
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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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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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Greatness, once fallen out with fortune, must fall out with men too.
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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.
