Quotes with ill-fortune

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• To a well deserving person God will show favor. To an ill deserving person He will simply be just.

  ― Plautus
  Roman comic poet (250 - 184)
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• To be or not to be that is the question. Whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the stings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or take up arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing them, end them.

  ― William Shakespeare
  English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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• To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible.

  ― Benjamin Franklin
  American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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• To be, or not to be; that is the question;
  Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
  The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
  Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
  And by opposing, end them.

  Source: Hamlet

  ― William Shakespeare
  English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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• To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?

  ― W. M. Thackeray
  Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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• To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

  ― Harry A. Overstreet
  American writer and lecturer (1875 - 1970)
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• To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.

  ― Aeschylus
  Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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• To paraphrase Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a vast fortune must be in want of a newer, younger wife.

  ― Bruce Feirstein
  American screenwriter and humorist (1956 - )
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• To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

  ― Aristotle
  Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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• Today's Catholic church seems to reward authoritarian personalities who are clearly ill, violent, sexually obsessed and unable to remember the past.

  ― Matthew Fox
   
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• Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune.

  ― Aeschylus
  Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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• Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability. We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.

  ― Thomas Alva Edison
  American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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• Up on Housing Project Hill, it's either fortune or fame. You must pick one or the other, though neither of them are to be what they claim.

  Source: Highway 61 Revisited (1965)

  ― Bob Dylan
  American musician (1941 - )
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• War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.

  ― Sir Walter Raleigh
  British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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• War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But 'twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain.

  ― Joseph Rudyard Kipling
  English writer (1865 - 1936)
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• We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.

  ― Jean de la Fontaine
  French writer (1621 - 1695)
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• We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.

  ― Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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• We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.

  ― Mark Twain
  American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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• We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us.

  ― Alain de Botton
  Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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• We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.

  ― Jean de la Fontaine
  French writer (1621 - 1695)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• psychologically
• authoritarian
• personalities
• unfortunately
• opportunity
• preparation

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