Fortune Quotes
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It is vain to complain of fortune while we fail in policy and conduct.
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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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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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Whatever we give to the wretched, we lend to fortune.
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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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We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.
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There are few have Dana's fortune, to have God and gold together.
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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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To live as an artist requires hard work or some extraordinary good fortune to come your way.
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I suppose I arrived at my charitable commitment largely through guilt. I recognized early on that my good fortune was not due to superior personal character or initiative so much as it was to dumb luck.
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No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.
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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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Happiness is essentially perfect; so that the happy man requires in addition the goods of the body, external goods and the gifts of fortune, in order that his activity may not be impeded through lack of them.
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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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Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.
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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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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 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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Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.
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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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A noble birth and fortune, though they make not a bad man good, yet they are a real advantage to a worthy one and place his virtues in a fairer light.
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Greatness, once fallen out with fortune, must fall out with men too.
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Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
