Quotes with ill-fortune

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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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• No, seriously, I really don't have much ill-will toward anyone these days; I just ignore the people that I dislike.

  ― Boyd Rice
  American musician (1956 - )
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• Noble blood is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.

  Source: 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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• Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.

  ― Honoré de Balzac
  French writer (1799 - 1850)
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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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• O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-work, and how ill requited! Why should our endeavor be so loved, and the performance so loathed?

  ― William Shakespeare
  English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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• O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults, looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year!

  ― William Shakespeare
  English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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• Oh yet we trust that somehow good will be the final goal of ill!

  ― Alfred Lord Tennyson
  English poet (1809 - 1892)
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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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• One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.

  ― Lew Wallace
  American lawyer, Union general in the American Civil War, territorial governor and statesman, politician, and author of (1827 - 1905)
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• One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
  

  ― Robert A. Heinlein
  American science fiction writer (1907 - 1988)
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• Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune's always here.

  ― Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
  German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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• Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.

  ― Ayn Rand
  Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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• Our acts, our angels are, or good or ill, I our fatal shadows that walk by us still.

  ― John Fletcher
  English playwright (1579 - 1625)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• responsibilities
• vicissitudes
• satisfaction
• friendships
• performance
• ill-favored

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