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"A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind."
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"I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own."
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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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"Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you."
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"Accidental wisdom is better than willful folly."
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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."
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"Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall."
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"Nothing guarantees a person effortless wealth as when his SEASON comes."
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"Risk means 'shit happens' or 'good luck."
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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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"The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied."
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"The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious."
Difference
"Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts."
Silence
"Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries."
Ego
"It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see."
Heart
"A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus."
Perspective
"Thought is the parent of the deed."
Thought
"Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen."
Power
"Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation."
Work
"Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand."
Business
"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."
Being
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