Quotes with fortune

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• It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.

  Arthur E. Waite
  American-born British poet and mystic (1857 - 1942)
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• It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not. -Bill Gates, Fortune Magazine, July 17 2007

  Bill Gates
  American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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• Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

  James Weldon Johnson
   
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• Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

  W. M. Thackeray
  Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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• Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero
  Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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• Luck is not chance, it is toil. Fortune is expensive smile is earned.

  Emily Dickinson
  American poet (1830 - 1886)
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• Major Amberson had made a fortune in 1873, when other people were losing fortunes, and the magnificence of the Ambersons began then.

  Booth Tarkington
  American novelist and dramatist (1869 - 1946)
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• Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.

  Johann Georg - Ritter von Zimmermann
  Swiss philosopher, physician and writer (1728 - 1795)
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• Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

  Benjamin Disraeli
  English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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• My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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• Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.

  Francis Quarles
  British poet (1592 - 1644)
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• No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.

  Francis Bacon
  English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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• No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.

  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
  English writer (1689 - 1762)
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• No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

  Euripides
  Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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• No wise person should make known the loss of fortune, any malpractice in their house, his being cheated, or having been disgraced.

  Hitopadesa
  Indian text in Sanskrit
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• Noble blood is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.

  Pamela Fanciulla, Act I, Scene 6

  Carlo Goldoni
  Italian playwright (1707 - 1793)
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• Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.

  Titus Livy
  Roman historian (59 - 17)
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• Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero
  Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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• Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.

  Ovid
  Roman poet (43 - 17)
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• One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a fortune, one begins to consider responsibilities, and to ponder business; on a base of steady satisfaction rise certain grave cares, and we contain ourselves, and brood over our bliss with a solemn brow.

  Charlotte Brontë
  British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• responsibilities
• undistinguished
• entertainment
• characterize
• vicissitudes
• satisfaction

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