Fortune Quotes
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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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It is much better to tempt fortune where it can favor you than to see your certain ruin by not tempting it.
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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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My pride fell with my fortunes.
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The fact is, there are Fortune 500 companies that have been founded during recessions.
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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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I don't know the reason for that particular band's fortune or lack of it. But, in our case, I think it's the music that we make and made is timeless. It may remind you of the time you heard it.
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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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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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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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Once you finish a book, you let it go out into the world to seek its fortune.
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I just felt my good fortune, and I also trust my love for the book, my love for the material, and my reverence for Stephen King.
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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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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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Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn't going to let it ruin my life. There's no way you could ever spend it all, and I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.
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Those whom fortune has never favored are more joyful than those whom she has deserted.
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I think cheerfulness is a fortune in itself.
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Will Fortune never come with both hands full, But write her fair words still in foulest terms?
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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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When I left EastEnders, I could have earned an absolute fortune from sexy calendars, shoots for lads' mags, fitness videos and reality shows. But I always turned them down.
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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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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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We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.
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I happened to be one of those who thought all these expenses necessary, and I had the good fortune to have the majority of both houses of Parliament on my side.
