FORTUNE QUOTES

quotations about fortune

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A Change of Fortune hurts a wise Man no more than a Change of the Moon.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

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Fortune may flatter us, but she herself is not to be flattered.

EDWARD COUNSEL

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It can't be a good sign when your fortune cookie starts out with "Are you sitting down?"

TOM WILSON

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There is frequently a poison in fortune's gifts.

EDWARD COUNSEL

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I've seen the smiling of Fortune beguiling,
I've felt all its favours and found its decay.

ALISON COCKBURN

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Bear the greatest fortune as if thou deserved it not.

EDWARD COUNSEL

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Fortune favors the brave.

TERENCE

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When fortune comes seize her in front firmly, because behind she is bald.

LEONARDO DA VINCI

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The loss of fortune to a true man is but the trumpet challenge to renewed exertion, not the thunder stroke of destruction.

E. H. CHAPIN

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Behind every great fortune is a great crime.

JULIA STILES

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

MIGUEL DE CERVANTES

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Fortunes are wrung from the smallest of things
That once were ignored, turning men into kings.

EDWIN LEIBFREED

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By working one can bend fortune. She is fond of crafty men.

GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

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Chiefly the mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

FRANCIS BACON

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O Fortune, cruellest of heavenly powers,
Why make such game of this poor life of ours?

HORACE

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Who lets slip Fortune, her shall never find.
Occasion once pass'd by, is bald behind.

ABRAHAM COWLEY

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There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.

EURIPIDES

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Fortune's favours are too often like thunderbolts--which kill.

EDWARD COUNSEL

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It is more easy to get a favor from Fortune than to keep it.

PUBLILIUS SYRUS

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The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.

GOETHE

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