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"Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm."
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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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"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."
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"Some donkeys have amazing luck."
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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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"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."
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"Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous."
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"We do not know what is really good or bad fortune."
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"Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm."
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"Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great."
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"If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police."
Friendship
"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
Being
"Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?"
Friendship
"The obscurest epoch is today."
Time
"All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer."
Language
"Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life."
Life
"To be honest, to be kind - to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not be embittered, to keep a few friends but these without capitulation - above all, on the same grim condition, to keep friends with himself - here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy. He has an ambitious soul who would ask more; he has a hopeful spirit who should look in such an enterprise to be successful."
Character
"The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect."
Action
"The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings."
Happiness
"There is no duty so much underrated as the duty of being happy."
Happiness
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