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• I beg my Children to be just and virtuous, never to disgrace my name or theirs, and then they are out of fortune's power

  Thomas Willis

  Children, Power, Names

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• I am above being injured by fortune, though she steals away much, more will remain with me. The blessing I now enjoy transcend fear.

  Ovid

  Fear, Blessing, Stealing

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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.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Greatness, Guilt, Criminals

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• There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Air, Doe, Kind

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• Fortune, men say, doth give too much to many, But yet she never gave enough to any.

  John Harington

  Men, Giving, Too Much

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• I don't need to make a fortune, I need to survive.

  Solomon Burke

  Needs

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• An accident is an inevitable occurrence due to the actions of immutable natural laws.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Law, Action, Natural

  Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.567, Library of America

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• You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe--or she will call you ungrateful.

  Martial

  Blessing, Ungrateful, Doe

  Martial (1871). “The Epigrams of Martial”, p.297

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• Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

  Martial

  Giving, Too Much, Wealth

  Martial (1871). “The Epigrams of Martial”, p.549

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• A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.

  Benjamin Rush

  Men, Pioneers, Credit

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• A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.

  Wilson Mizner

  Ambition, Men, People

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• The day of fortune is like a harvest day,
  We must be busy when the corn is ripe.
  [Ger., Ein tag der Gunst ist wie ein Tag der Ernte,
  Man muss geschaftig sein sobald sie reift.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Corn, Tag

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• Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.

  Seneca the Younger

  Happiness, Failure, Adversity

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• What ever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

  A. A. Milne

  Fear, Action

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• 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.

  Herodotus

  Men, Luck, Sides

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• All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.

  Anita Brookner

  God, Winning, Favors

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• The Goddess Fortune is the devil's servant, ready to kiss any one's ass.

  William Blake

  God, Kissing, Luck

  William Blake (1979). “Complete writings: with variant readings”

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• Something is always wanting to incomplete fortune.
  [Lat., Curtae nescio quid semper abest rei.]

  Horace

  Incomplete

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• The result showed that fortune helps the brave.

  Livy

  Brave, Helping, Results

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book VIII, section 29,

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• Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

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• The more we take the less we become, the fortune of one man means less for some.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Mean, Men, One Man

  Song: World on Fire, Album: Afterglow, 2003

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• Fortune, like a coy mistress, loves to yield her favors, though she makes us wrest them from her.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Yield, Mistress, Favors

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• A good man's fortune may grow out at heels.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Good Man, May

  1605-6 Kent. King Lear, act 2, sc.2, l.148.

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• By going solo I could lose a fortune but money is not important.

  Barry Gibb

  Important, Solo, Loses

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

  Plutarch

  Fate, Destiny, Men

  Plutarch (1906). “Essays & Miscellanies...”

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