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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
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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
Jane Austen
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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
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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.
Proverb
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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
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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
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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.
Benjamin Franklin
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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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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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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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