"The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied."

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"The greatest good fortune of my return to Cambridge in 1946 was that there, in the spring, I met Elizabeth Fay Ringo. We were married a few months later."

James Tobin, American Economist

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"The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips."

J. Paul Getty, American Businessman

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"I daresay something will happen, between now and '91, to make your fortunes look up."

Hilary Mantel, British Novelist

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"Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune."

Thomas Gray, English Poet

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

Solomon Burke, American Musician

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"I jumped off the wheel of fortune because I wanted to simplify things. Now I've fulfilled my obligations to myself by making my new record. I'd like it to sell millions of copies, but my self - worth is not based on chart positions."

Roland Gift, British Actor

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"It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other."

Petrarch, Italian Poet

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"I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves."

Lord Byron, British Poet

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"The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune."

Joseph Addison, English Writer

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"Life is full of chances and changes and the most prosperous of men may ... meet with great misfortunes."

Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

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"Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice."

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"There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health."

Health

"Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use."

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"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is."

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"Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set."

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"There was never law or sect or opinion did so much magnify goodness as the Christian religion doth."

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"Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again."

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"Knowledge is power."

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"Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse."

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"When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative."

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