Quotes with ill-fortune

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• A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.

  Publilius Syrus
  Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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• Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires.

  Benjamin Franklin
  American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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• When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

  Plato
  Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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• A great fortune is a great slavery.

  Seneca
  Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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• Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

  John F. Kennedy
  American politician (1917 - 1963)
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• Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

  A. A. Milne
  English author, writer of the Winnie-the-Pooh books (1882 - 1956)
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• A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

  Horace
  Roman poet
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• A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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• A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.

  Thomas Carlyle
  Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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• A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

  Horace
  Roman poet
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• Commerce is one of the daughters of Fortune, inconsistent and deceitful as her mother. she chooses her residence where she is least expected, and shifts her home when in appearance she seems firmly settled.

  Ben Johnston
   
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• Don't dissipate your powers; strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it will surely repent of every ill-judged outlay.

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
  German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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• For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.

  Marcel Proust
  French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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• Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.

  Euripides
  Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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• He is not elevated by good fortune or depressed by bad. His mind is established in God, and he is free from delusion.

  Bhagavad Gita
  Indian Hindu storybook
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• He who waits upon fortune is never sure of dinner.

  Benjamin Franklin
  American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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• It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

  Publilius Syrus
  Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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• It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.

  Mark Twain
  American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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• It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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• It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.

  Samuel Smiles
  Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• disappointments
• mismanagement
• consequences
• improvidence
• established
• application

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