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" Quotes and Sayings About fortune

The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.

Planned badly Fortune Stroke Luck
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Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.

Men's fortune Wheel Turning suffers Prosper forever
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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.

Most hateful Human misfortune Wise man Influence
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The rice grain suffers under the blow of the pestle. But admire its whiteness once the order is over. So it is with men and the world we live in. To be a man one must suffer the blows of misfortune.

Rice grain Suffers Men World
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Leave off asking what tomorrow will bring, and whatever days fortune will give, count them as profit.
Leave off Asking Tomorrow Will bring
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Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.

Fortune makes Fool Favors
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It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

Accord Borne Engine Excellent
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What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?

Any Before Branch Commerce
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There comes a certain point in life when you have to stop blaming other people for how you feel or the misfortunes in your life. You can't go through life obsessing about what might have been

Certain point In life Stop blaming People
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Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

Bear Cheer Come Good
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Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.

Brave Fortune Rod Staff
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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.

Acknowledged Fortune Good Good Fortune
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There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.

Certainly Deserve Fortune Large
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A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

Anything Conceal Knowing Misfortune
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It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.

Mode Thought Misfortunes Others
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It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes.

Imitating Vices Others Earned
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We can only feel sorry for ourselves when our misfortunes are still supportable. Once this limit is crossed, the only way to bear the unbearable is to laugh at it.

Feel sorry Misfortunes Supportable Crossed
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Many young men started down a false path to their true destiny. Time and fortune usually set them aright.

Many Young men False path True destiny
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Behind every successful fortune;There is Crime.
Behind Successful fortune Crime
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In business, one should never take anything for granted. Your fortune can change in five minutes.

In business Never take Anything Granted
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I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty to riches, adversity to prosperity, and I am more invulnerable than Archilles; Fortune hath not one place to hit me.

Happiest man Alive Convert poverty Riches
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It is we that are blind, not fortune.
Blind Not fortune
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In peace and prosperity states and individuals have better sentiments, because they do not find themselves suddenly confronted with imperious necessities; but war takes away the easy supply of daily wants and so proves a rough master that brings most men's characters to a level with their fortunes.

In peace Prosperity states Individuals Better sentiments
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Pride thinks it's own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.

Pride thinks Own happiness Brighter Misfortunes
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Fortune doth both raise up the low and pluck down the high.

Fortune Raise up Low Pluck down
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The fortunes of Africa are in our hands to make or mar. For too long have we been kicked around; for too long have we been treated like adolescents who cannot discern their interests and act accordingly; For too long, it has been presumed that Africa needs outside ‘experts’ to tell him who are his friends and who are his enemies.

Fortunes Africa Mar Too long
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it's possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.

Possible Love fly Cloud Windy
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Looking at the mirror, all I see is me, my true reflection. What I go through lives inside of me.We are all a mess, but it’s how we keep it together that makes us beautiful We are the architect of our own fortune.

Looking The mirror True reflection Through live
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A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.

Someone Finds freedom Good fortune
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I have no faith in anything. That consists of my fortune too.

Have No faith In anything Consist
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Statistical impossibility is when you lose election by about four and a half million and you are still dreaming that the results of two small States, if rigged in your favor, could change your fortune.

Statistical impossibility Lose election Still dreaming Your fortune
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What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.

Most important Democracy Great fortunes Same hands
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The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune

The happy Powerful Into exile Surer guarantees
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We are always in a hurry to be happy,for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.

Hurry Be happy Have suffered Long time
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On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.

Slender threads Life Fortune hang
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Good fortune can take forever to get to you, but as it turns out, sorrow is as quick as a shot.

Good fortunes Take forever Sorrow Quick
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The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.

Woman Create Job Win
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An emerging risk for Africa is stranded assets,stranding can endanger the continent‘social and economic fortunes and reverse current gains.

Emerging risk Stranded assets Can endanger Continent's social
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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Friends Acquaintances Surest passport To fortune
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I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

Never admire Another's fortune Became dissatisfied My own
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The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

The misfortunes Hardest To bear Never came
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Fortune favors the audacious.

Fortune Favors Audacious
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I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly that I want to have a good job and have good friends; that's the good stuff in life.

After fame Success Fortune Power
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Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.

Misfortunes Life Wrong notions Things
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Run your race. There is no finish line, just an expanse of knowledge and long winding wheels of fortune. You can’t control it. You can’t power through it. Not by might. Not by money. Not by perfection. Always by grace.

Run Your race Finish line Winding wheels
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Refrain from being excited at another's misfortune.

Refrain from Being excited Another's misfortune
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In a word, in adversity she was the best of comforters, in good fortune the most troublesome of friends...

Word Adversity Comforters Friends
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Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

Man Life Dare Succeed
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Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

Misfortune Wise Reason Life
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The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

Misfortune Wise Prosperity Fool
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