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Fortune Quotes It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task.
It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.
To be a well-flavored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read comes by nature.
Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
The way of fortune is like the milky way in the sky; which is a number of smaller stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together; so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.
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.
The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune.
There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us.
The stupid fear fortune, the wise endure it.
Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.
Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune.
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear. Although we can never rivet our fortune so tight as to make it impregnible, we may by our excessive prudence squeeze out of the life that we are guarding so anxiously all the adventurous quality that makes it worth living.
The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people.
Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies.
By the accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love and kindness he may rule the world forever.
By the accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love and kindness he may rule the world forever.
To be or not to be that is the question. Whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the stings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or take up arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing them, end them.
Fortune and love favour the brave.
Don't trust in fortune until you are in heaven.
A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.
The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune.
That discipline which corrects the eagerness of worldly passions, which fortifies the heart with virtuous principles, which enlightens the mind with useful knowledge, and furnishes to it matter of enjoyment from within itself, is of more consequence to real felicity than all the provisions which we can make of the goods of fortune.
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