Quotes with ill-fortune

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• The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

  ― Miguel de Cervantes
  Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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• The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.

  ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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• The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

  ― Francis Bacon
  English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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• The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.

  ― John Mortimer
  English barrister, dramatist, screenwriter, and author (1923 - 2009)
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• The Goddess Fortune is the devil's servant, ready to kiss any one's ass.

  ― William Blake
  English poet (1757 - 1827)
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• The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.

  ― Friedrich Nietzsche
  German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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• The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

  ― Francois de la Rochefoucauld
  French writer (1613 - 1680)
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• The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.

  ― Thomas à Kempis
  Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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• The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.

  ― Harold Nicolson
  British writer, diplomat and politician (1886 - 1968)
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• The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.

  ― Jean Paul Getty
  American-born British industrialist, founder of Getty Oil Company (1892 - 1976)
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• The man who does ill must suffer ill.

  ― Aeschylus
  Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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• The Manhattan district attorney has closed the well-publicized investigation of the handling of the $300 million fortune of reclusive heiress Huguette Clark - without charging anyone with a crime.

  ― Bill Dedman
  American journalist (1960 - )
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• The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.

  ― Seneca
  Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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• The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.

  ― Henry Ward Beecher
  American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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• The most important thing when ill, is to never lose heart.

  ― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
  Russian revolutionary leader (1870 - 1924)
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• The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

  ― Francis Bacon
  English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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• The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise.

  ― Miguel de Cervantes
  Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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• The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.

  ― Stephen Leacock
  Canadian humorist and economist (1869 - 1944)
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• The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune.

  ― William Penn
  English religious leader, founder of Pennsylvania (1644 - 1718)
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• The time comes when each one of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he pinned upon his fellow-men, and when he may learn how much difficulty and pain has been added to his life by their ill-will.

  ― Sigmund Freud
  Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• well-publicized
• investigation
• expectations
• fellow-men
• difficulty
• reclusive

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