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"Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune."
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"A great mind becomes a great fortune."
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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."
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"Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain."
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"I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value."
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"Luck is a favorable thing out of an uncertainty. No such thing as luck when everything's certain."
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"Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you."
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"Fortune is like glass - the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken."
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"Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down."
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"Luck is what a capricious man believes in."
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"Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, "This is a misfortune" but "To bear this worthily is good fortune.""
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"You are young, gifted, and Black. We must begin to tell our young, There's a world waiting for you, Yours is the quest that's just begun."
Black
"Americans are immensely popular in Paris; and this is not due solely to the fact that they spend lots of money there, for they spend just as much or more in London, and in the latter city they are merely tolerated because they do spend."
Money
"When we arrived in London, my sadness at leaving Paris was turned into despair. After my long stay in the French capital, huge, ponderous, massive London seemed to me as ugly a thing as man could contrive to make."
Despair
"As I look back now I can see that I was a perfect little aristocrat."
Now
"I believe it to be a fact that the colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them."
People
"I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle."
Beauty
"The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they are picturesque. If one will put oneself in a romantic frame of mind, one can admire their notions of chivalry and bravery and justice."
People
"I do not see how a people that can find in its conscience any excuse whatever for slowly burning to death a human being, or for tolerating such an act, can be entrusted with the salvation of a race."
Death
"In Berlin I especially enjoyed the orchestral concerts, and I attended a large number of them. I formed the acquaintance of a good many musicians, several of whom spoke of my playing in high terms."
Travel
"Shortly after this I was made a member of the boys' choir, it being found that I possessed a clear, strong soprano voice. I enjoyed the singing very much."
Being
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