Quotes with fortune

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• Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.

  Arthur Helps
  English writer and dean
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• Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past.

  Francis Herbert Hedge
  British philosopher (1846 - 1924)
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• Every man is the maker of his own fortune.

  Sir Richard Steele
  British Dramatist, Essayist, Editor (1672 - 1729)
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• Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat; it is no less folly to fear what is impossible to be avoided than to be secure when there is a possibility to be deprived.

  Francis Quarles
  British poet (1592 - 1644)
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• For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.

  Boethius
  Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher (480 - 524)
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• For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy.

  De Consolatione Philosophia Book 2, prose 4

  Boethius
  Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher (480 - 524)
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• Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

  Jim Rohn
  American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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• Fortune and humor govern the world.

  Francois de la Rochefoucauld
  French writer (1613 - 1680)
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• Fortune and love favor the brave.

  Ovid
  Roman poet (43 - 17)
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• Fortune befriends the bold.

  John Dryden
  English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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• Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

  Seneca
  Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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• Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance,
  And toss them on the wheels of Chance.

  Juvenal
  Roman poet
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• Fortune cannot be flattered by such fetish worship. But she can be wooed and won by hard work.

  Lord Beaverbrook
   
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• Fortune favors the brave.

  Virgil
  Roman poet (70 - 19)
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• Fortune favors the prepared mind.

  Louis Pasteur
  French scientist (1822 - 1895)
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• Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

  Marcus Valerius Martial
  Latin poet and epigrammatist (40 - 104)
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• Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.

  Isaac D'Israeli
  British scholar and writer (1766 - 1848)
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• Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away.

  Charles V
  Holy Roman Emperor and Archduke of Austria
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• Fortune helps the brave.

  Terence
  Roman writer of comedies (190 - 159)
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• Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.

  Oliver Goldsmith
  Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• self-education
• condescended
• accompanying
• education
• befriends
• flattered

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