Fortune Quotes
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We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.
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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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Those whom fortune has never favored are more joyful than those whom she has deserted.
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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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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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Fear not, Cesario, take thy fortunes up. Be that thou know'st thou art and then thou art as great as that thou fear'st.
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Ignorant people always suppose that popular writers are wonderfully well-paid - and must be making rapid fortunes - because they neither starve in garrets, nor wear rags - at least in America.
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If the loss of your fortune gains Christ for you, it will be a beautiful loss.
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If you have no family or friends to aid you . . . turn your face to the Great West and there build up your home and fortune.
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There are few have Dana's fortune, to have God and gold together.
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To live as an artist requires hard work or some extraordinary good fortune to come your way.
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It is vain to complain of fortune while we fail in policy and conduct.
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By looting, the temples of the South and hunting out buried treasures, Mir Jumla amassed a vast fortune. The huge Hindu idols of copper were brought away in large numbers to be melted and cast into cannon.....
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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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He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil. Say that his power lies in words and looks; in things so slight and insignificant that it is impossible to add and count 'em up: what then? The happiness he gives, is quite as great as if it cost a fortune.
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Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.
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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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Greatness, once fallen out with fortune, must fall out with men too.
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Many dream not to find, neither deserve, and yet are steeped in favors.
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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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I have the good fortune of knowing both John McCain and Donald Trump well, both men have more in common than the today's media hype would have you believe. Both blazed trails in their careers and love our great nation.
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Fame and fortune does not mean anything if you don't have a happy home.
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Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.
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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.
