Quotes with fortune

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• A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels, and recompense the infrequency of their enjoyment by excess and riot, whenever fortune sets the banquet before them.

  Samuel Johnson
  English writer (1709 - 1784)
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• A happy marriage is still the greatest treasure within the gift of fortune.

  Eden Phillpotts
  English author, poet and dramatist (1862 - 1960)
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• A life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.

  Denis Waitley
  American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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• A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them a fortune.

  Richard Whately
  British writer (1787 - 1863)
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• A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.

  Benjamin Rush
  American politician (1745 - 1813)
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• A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.

  Jean de la Bruyère
  French writer (1645 - 1696)
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• A woman must make her fortune before she is 30; or work after she is 30; or get married.

  Anna Held
  Polish-born stage performer and singer (1872 - 1918)
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• Action makes more fortune than caution.

  Luc de Clapiers
  French writer and moralist
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• All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.

  Anita Brookner
  British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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• An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

  Robert Louis Stevenson
  Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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• Anyway, in the mid 80's I was spending a fortune buying old Golden Age books from the late 30's and 40's and I was making personal appearances at a lot of sci fi and comic book conventions all around the country here so that I could find books for my collection.

  Bill Mumy
  American actor and musician (1954 - )
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• As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

  Sallust
  Roman historian (86 - 34)
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• Behind every great fortune there is a crime.

  Honoré de Balzac
  French writer (1799 - 1850)
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• Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

  Miguel de Cervantes
  Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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• Disparity in age seems a greater obstacle to an intimate friendship than inequality of fortune.

  Jeremy Collier
  English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian (1650 - 1726)
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• Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.

  E. Joseph Cossman
  American author
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• Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.

  Virgil
  Roman poet (70 - 19)
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• Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.

  William Hazlitt
  English writer (1778 - 1830)
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• Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means - one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies.

  George Eliot
  English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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• Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.

  Truman Capote
  American writer (1924 - 1984)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• delinquencies
• jurisprudence
• participants
• interminably
• misfortunes
• ingredients

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