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• A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.

  Brendan Behan

  Men, Role Models, Inspire

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• We all have a responsibility in life to do what we can to help those less fortunate.

  Roger Moore

  Responsibility, Helping, Those Less Fortunate

  "Portrait of the artist: Roger Moore, actor". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2011.

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• Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

  Plutarch

  Happiness, Happy, Speak Less

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• One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Imagine, Unfortunate

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• The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate.

  Booker T. Washington

  Famous Inspirational, Race, Hands

  Booker T. Washington (1972). “Papers: The Autobiographical Writings”, p.158, University of Illinois Press

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• The man who is fortunate in his choice of son-in-law gains a son; the man unfortunate in his choice loses his daughter also.

  Democritus

  Daughter, Mother, Son

  "Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers: A Complete Translation of the Fragments in Diels Fragmente Der Vorsokratiker", translated by Kathleen Freeman, Harvard University Press, (p. 169), 1948.

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• Envy is the antagonist of the fortunate.

  Epictetus

  Envy, Antagonist

  Epictetus (2012). “Enchiridion”, p.60, Courier Corporation

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• Fortunate is the person who has developed the self-control to steer a straight course towards his objectives in life, without being swayed from his purpose by either commendation or condemnation.

  Napoleon Hill

  Life, Success, Self

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Eark Nightingale, Claude M. Bristol, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS02”, p.112, Lulu.com

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• The moderation of fortunate people comes from the calm which good fortune gives to their tempers.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  People, Giving, Calm

  "Maxims". Book by Francois de La Rochefoucauld, No. 18, 1665.

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• I made it clear that I will consider - this is the important phrase I am trying to say - myself most fortunate if Jesus Christ will accept the sacrifice of my blood to raise the voice for the justice and rights of the persecuted and victimized Christians and other minorities in Pakistan.

  Shahbaz Bhatti

  Christian, Jesus, Sacrifice

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• The brave or the fortunate can afford to laugh at envy.

  Publilius Syrus

  Envy, Laughing, Brave

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• To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Soul, Ignorant

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• I feel so fortunate and grateful to be a survivor of breast cancer. I see it as a gift.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Inspirational, Cancer, Grateful

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• And I have to consider myself fortunate, because there are plenty of writers who spend most of a lifetime looking for that certain something without ever finding it.

  Brian Lumley

  Bedtime, Lifetime, Certain

  "Necroscope: Looking Back". www.brianlumley.com.

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• I count myself fortunate to be able to participate in the life of science in this era.

  Polykarp Kusch

  Able, Eras

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• Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Motivational, Work

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.435

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• Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.

  Plato

  Animal, Men, Savages

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• The unrighteous are never really fortunate.

  Euripides

  Wickedness

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes”, p.63, University of Chicago Press

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• Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle; Love is the work of wrestlers. The one who becomes a servant of lovers is really a fortunate sovereign. Don't ask anyone about Love; ask Love about Love. Love is a cloud that scatters pearls.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Love Is, Clouds

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “The Pocket Rumi”, p.82, Shambhala Publications

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• That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?

  Alexandre Dumas

  Dream, Knows, Awakened

  Alexandre Dumas (2016). “ALEXANDRE DUMAS Ultimate Collection: 40+ Titles Including The Three Musketeers Series, The Marie Antoinette Novels, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Valois Trilogy and more (Illustrated): Historical Novels, Adventure Classics, True Crime Stories & Biography (Queen Margot, The Black Tulip, The Queen’s Necklace, Taking the Bastille, The Man in the Iron Mask, The Sicilian Bandit…)”, p.6306, e-artnow

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• Humanity is fortunate, because no man is unhappy except by his own fault.

  Seneca the Younger

  Happiness, Men, Humanity

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• You don't really get to pick and chose what you would like to be doing. But I've been very fortunate, and I think water seeks its own level. You do gravitate towards things that you would get off on.

  Bill Paxton

  Thinking, Water, Levels

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• Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

  Helen Keller

  Respect, Appreciation, Struggle

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• I am fortunate to have the resources to have many methods to do each of my illusions.

  David Copperfield

  Illusion, Resources, Method

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• Some happy talent, and some fortunate opportunity, may form the two sides of the ladder on which some men mount, but the rounds of that ladder must be made of stuff to stand wear and tear; and there is no substitute for thorough-going, ardent, and sincere earnestness.

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Opportunity, Men

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.4820, Delphi Classics

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