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" Quotes and Sayings About fortune

Happiness isn't a fortune in a cookie. It's deeper, wider, funnier, and more transporting than that.

Cookie Deeper Fortune Funnier
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To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Accuse Begun Complete Education
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I have had the good fortune through my God that I should never abandon his people whom I have acquired in the extremities of the earth.

Abandon Acquired Earth Fortune
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Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.
Chance Earned Expensive Fortune
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Fortune befriends the bold.

Bold Fortune Friendship The
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We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

Attribute Fortune Achieved
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Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.

Shortens Journey Misfortunes Hearer
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Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

Education Formal Formal Education Fortune
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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.

Once Bald Past Slip
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I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.

Believe In Censorship Made
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Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Beginning Fortunes Ideas Points
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When a fortune comes without calling, it's apt to leave without asking.

Fortune Calling Leaves
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Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate.

Misfortune Acquainted Learn
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Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.

Yield Misfortunes Boldly Permit
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Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

Diligence Fortune Good GoodFortune
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Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

Ambition Been Console Fortune
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Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
Indeed History Tableau Crime
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History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

History Register Crimes Misfortunes
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Rejoicing in the good fortune of others is a practice that can help us when we feel emotionally shut down and unable to connect with others. Rejoicing generates good will.

Connect Down Emotionally Feel
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No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.

Bricks Chance Clay Ever
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You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.

Avoid Chance Expensive Fortune
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Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.

Forces Great Slight Deal
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Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
Change Dangerous Fortune Men
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Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.

Fear Fortune Future Present
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Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

Test Servant Duty Relative
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It was the wont of the immortal gods sometimes to grant prosperity and long impunity to men whose crimes they were minded to punish in order that a complete reverse of fortune might make them suffer more bitterly.

Complete Crimes Fortune Gods
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One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Battered Better Down Likes
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The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune; it is also the basis of happiness. A person cannot accumulate a fortune very well when he is sick.

Fundation Success Life Health
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Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.
Fortune Favor Brave Helps
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Every man should make his son or daughter learn some useful trade or profession, so that in these days of changing fortunes of being rich today and poor tomorrow they may have something tangible to fall back upon. This provision might save many persons from misery, who by some unexpected turn of fortune have lost all their means.

Every man Make Daughter Learn
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Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'

Anything Bear Bitter Fortune
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You are a dreamer, and that is your misfortune.

You Dreamer Misfortune
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Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

Boats Brings Fortune Some
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It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.

Criminal Steal Darling Fortune
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All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.

Arisen Blunders Books Dancing
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My pride fell with my fortunes.

Fell Fortunes Pride
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A man endures misfortune without complaint.

Man Endures Misfortune Complaint
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The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.

Greatest Misfortune Wise Man
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..but it seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, if breakable in prosperity, should be indissoluble in misfortune.

Husband Wife Breakable Prosperity
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My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.

Altogether Beyond Committing Entertain
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There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.

Able Fortune His Hundred
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The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.

Almost Almost Anything Anything Better
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There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.

Comprehension Control Defy Families
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Those who are happy and successful themselves are too apt to make light of the misfortunes of others.

Happy Successful themselves Misfortunes
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My appeal to the rich is, Deal liberally with your poor brethren, and use your means to advance the cause of God. The worthy poor, who are made poor by misfortune and sickness, deserve your especial care and help.

Appeal Rich Poor brethren Advance
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You have doubtless heard, my dear mother, the misfortune of Madame de Chartres, whose child is born dead. But I would rather have even that, terrible as it is, than be as I am without hope of any children.

Born Child Children Dead
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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.

Being Being Happy Fortune Generous
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The test of friendship is its fidelity when every charm of fortune and environment has been spent away, and the bare, undraped character alone remains; if love still holds steadfast, and the joy of companionship survives in such an hour, the fellowship becomes a beautiful prophecy of immortality.

Test Friendship Fidelity Fortune
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Fortune favors the prepared mind.

Favors Fortune Mind Prepared
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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

Cannot Clock Fortune Frightened
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