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Fortune Quotes
"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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"I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves."
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"Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave."
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"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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"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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"I daresay something will happen, between now and '91, to make your fortunes look up."
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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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"Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous."
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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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"Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down."
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"We do not know what is really good or bad fortune."
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"Accidental wisdom is better than willful folly."
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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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"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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