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“God, grant me the Senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, the good fortune to run into the ones I do, and the eyesight to tell the difference”
Mark Twain Quotes |
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“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife”
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“One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.”
Robert A. Heinlein Quotes |
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“To attract good fortune, spend a new penny on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon.”
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“We ought to give thanks for all fortune: it is is good, because it is good, if bad, because it works in us patience, humility and the contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country”
C.S. Lewis Quotes |
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“I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.”
Hermann Hesse Quotes |
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“Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.”
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“To be fortunate is God, and more than God to mortals.”
Aeschylus Quotes Source: Choephoroe (60)
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“Any one who is prosperous may by the turn of fortune's wheel
become most wretched before evening.
[Lat., Quivis beatus, versa rota fortunae, ante vesperum potest
esse miserrimus.]”
Marcellinus Ammianus (Ammianus Marcellinus) Quotes Source: Historia (XXVI)
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“If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not
despond.
[Lat., Si fortuna juvat, caveto tolli;
Si fortuna tonat, caveto mergi.]”
Decimus Magnus Ausonius Quotes Source: Septem Sapientum Sententioe Septenis Versibus Explicatoe (IV, 6)
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“That conceit, elegantly expressed by the Emperor Charles V., in
his instructions to the King, his son, "that fortune hath
somewhat the nature of a woman, that if she be too much wooed she
is the farther off."”
Francis Bacon Quotes Source: Advancement of Learning (bk. II)
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“Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see
Fortune: for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.”
Francis Bacon Quotes Source: Essays--Of Fortune
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“Behind every great fortune there is a crime.”
Francis Bacon Quotes Source: Essays--Of Fortune
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“Fortune, now see, now proudly
Pluck off thy veil, and view thy triumph; look,
Look what thou hast brought this land to!--”
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Quotes Source: The Tragedy of Bonduca (act V, sc. 5)
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“The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a
goodly heritage.”
Bible Quotes Source: Psalms (ch. XVI, v. 6)
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“Just for a handful of silver he left us,
Just for a ribbon to stick in his coat;
Found the one gift of which Fortune bereft us,
Lost all the others she lets us devote.”
Robert Browning Quotes Source: The Lost Leader, referring to Wordsworth when he turned Tory
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“You carry Caesar and Caesar's fortune.
[Lat., Caesarem vehis, Caesarisque fortunam.]
- Julius Caesar (Caius Julius Caesar),”
Julius Caesar (Caius Julius Caesar) Quotes Source: his remark to a pilot in a storm; see Bacon's "Essays--Of Fortune"
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“Fortune, the great commandress of the world,
Hath divers ways to advance her followers:
To some she gives honor without deserving;
To other some, deserving without honor;
Some wit, some wealth,--and some, wit without wealth;
Some wealth without wit; some nor wit nor wealth.”
George Chapman Quotes Source: All Fools (act V, sc. 1)
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“It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life.
[Lat., Vitam regit fortuna, non sapientia.]”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes Source: Tusculanarum Disputationum (LIX)
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“Fortune favors the brave.
[Lat., Fors juvat audentes.]”
Claudian (Claudianus) Quotes Source: Epistles (IV, 9)
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“Alas! by what slight means are great affairs brought to
destruction.
[Lat., Eheu! quam brevibus pereunt ingentia fatis.]”
Claudian (Claudianus) Quotes Source: In Rufinum (II, 49)
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“If hindrances obstruct the way,
Thy magnanimity display.
And let thy strength be seen:
But O, if Fortune fill thy sail
With more than a propitious gale,
Take half thy canvas in.”
William Cowper Quotes Source: Translation of Horace (bk. II, ode 10)
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“Ill fortune seldom comes alone.”
John Dryden Quotes Source: Cymon and Iphigenia (l. 592)
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“Let fortune empty her whole quiver on me.
I have a soul that, like an ample shield,
Can take in all, and verge enough for more.”
John Dryden Quotes Source: Don Sebastian (act I, sc. 1)
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“Neuer thinke you fortune can beare the sway,
Where Virtue's force, can cause her to obay.”
Elizabeth I Quotes Source: preserved by George Putnam in his "Art of Poesie", bk. III, "Of Ornament"
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