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Fortune Quotes
"No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition."
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"Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune."
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"I daresay something will happen, between now and '91, to make your fortunes look up."
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"When Elvis was performing, you just tried to figure out a way to get there. I think he set all the records and anyone that has ever had the good fortune to see him, you know what it's like to try to get in to see Elvis. It was impossible, practically."
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"Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us."
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"Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous."
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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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"You know, if you're an American and you're born at this time in history especially, you're lucky. We all are. We won the world history Powerball lottery."
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"Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave."
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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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"Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall."
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"There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune."
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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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"We do not know what is really good or bad fortune."
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"One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines."
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"Accidental wisdom is better than willful folly."
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"Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down."
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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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"The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied."
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"I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own."
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