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"I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you."
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Personal Development
"Accidental wisdom is better than willful folly."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall."
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Personal Development
"Nothing guarantees a person effortless wealth as when his SEASON comes."
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Personal Development
"Risk means 'shit happens' or 'good luck."
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Personal Development
"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 unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight."
Parenting
"We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us."
Legacy
"A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of."
Talent
"I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs."
Being
"Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense."
Music
"No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority."
Legal
"There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress."
Nature
"I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: "What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.""
Man
"The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality."
Life
"Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble."
People
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