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• You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.

  Anita Baker

  Family, Music, Home

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• We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.

  Charles Kuralt

  Achievement, Credit, Attributes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

  Jonathan Swift

  Success, Congratulations, Sadness

  Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1814). “The Works of Jonathan Swift: Miscellaneous essays”, p.436

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• Happiness consists more in small conveniences or 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

  Life, Happiness, Men

  Benjamin Franklin (1840). “The works of Benjamin Franklin: with notes and a life of the author by J. Sparks”, p.280

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• Fortune favours the bold.

  Aristotle

  Leadership, Luck, Favour

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• Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Inspirational, Industry

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• Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.

  Livy

  Time, Blessed, Men

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, "Annales", XXX. 42, (pp. 289-293), 1922.

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• Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life.

  Mark Twain

  Opportunity, Men, Gambling

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• Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.

  Emily Dickinson

  Good Luck, Gambling, Toil

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1630, Delphi Classics

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• A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

  Horace

  Change, Heart, Adversity

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• Fortune confounds the wise,
  And when they least expect it turns the dice.

  John Dryden

  Wise, Dice, Turns

  John Dryden (1854). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden”, p.60

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• Though Fortune's malice overthrow my state,
  My mind exceeds the compass of her wheel.

  William Shakespeare

  Mind, Wheels, Compass

  William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.61

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• If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.

  Bodhidharma

  Blessed, Past, Rewards

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.5, Macmillan

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• Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Flower, Fall, Power

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Personal Poems, Complete Volume IV., the Works of Whittier: Personal Poems”, p.131, tredition

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• Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

  William Shakespeare

  Business, Good Luck, Best Of Luck

  William Shakespeare (2011). “Cymbeline”, p.107, Palgrave Macmillan

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• Work hard at your job and you can make a living. Work hard on yourself and you can make a fortune.

  Jim Rohn

  Motivational, Success, Perseverance

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Sep 11, 2014

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• Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face. Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear; but they are so, simply because they are the very ones he most needs.

  Lydia M. Child

  Angel, Men, Clouds

  "Letters from New York". Book by Lydia Maria Child, Letter No. 39, 1843.

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• Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.

  James Russell Lowell

  Bravery, Literature, Weak

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• Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Life, Success, Mother

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• Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.

  Publilius Syrus

  Effectiveness, Action, Depends

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• Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.

  Euripides

  Literature, Helping, Judgment

  "Pirithous". Play by Euripides, 5th century BCE.

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• Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Character, Kwanzaa, Architect

  Ludwig Von Mises (1969). “Bureaucracy”, ICON Group International

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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

  Inspirational, Funny, Relationship

  Pride and Prejudice ch. 1 (1813)

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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

  Men, Looks, Blind

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Fortune'

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• In the same manner, having been reduced by disorder, and sunk to their utmost state of depression, unable to descend lower, they, of necessity, reascend; and thus from good they gradually decline to evil, and from evil again return to good. The reason is, that valor produces peace; peace, repose; repose, disorder; disorder, ruin; so from disorder order springs; from order virtue, and from this, glory and good fortune.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, Spring, War

  "Florentine Histories" by Niccolò Machiavelli, book V, chapter 1, 1526.

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