Quotes with ill-fortune

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  • Jeremy Collier Atheism is the result of ignorance and pride; of strong sense and feeble reasons; of good eating and ill living.
    ― Jeremy Collier
    English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian (1650 - 1726)
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  • Honoré de Balzac Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
    ― Honoré de Balzac
    French writer (1799 - 1850)
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  • Sir Walter Raleigh Better were it to be unborn than to be ill bred.
    ― Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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  • Molière Books and marriage go ill together.
    ― Molière
    French playwright (ps. by J. B. Poquelin) (1622 - 1673)
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  • Alexander Pope But when mischief mortals bend their will,
    How soon they find fit instruments of ill!
    Source: Rape of the Lock (1712) Canto III, 125
    ― Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Susan Sontag Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene - in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses.
    ― Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • H.G. Wells Cynicism is humor in ill health.
    ― H.G. Wells
    British-born American author (1866 - 1946)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
    ― Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Jeremy Collier Disparity in age seems a greater obstacle to an intimate friendship than inequality of fortune.
    ― Jeremy Collier
    English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian (1650 - 1726)
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  • E. Joseph Cossman Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.
    ― E. Joseph Cossman
    American author
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  • Virgil Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.
    ― Virgil
    Roman poet (70 - 19)
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  • William Hazlitt Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.
    ― William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • George Eliot Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means - one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies.
    ― George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Truman Capote Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.
    ― Truman Capote
    American writer (1924 - 1984)
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  • Arthur Helps Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.
    ― Arthur Helps
    English writer and dean
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  • Francis Herbert Hedge Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past.
    ― Francis Herbert Hedge
    British philosopher (1846 - 1924)
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  • Sir Richard Steele Every man is the maker of his own fortune.
    ― Sir Richard Steele
    British Dramatist, Essayist, Editor (1672 - 1729)
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  • Francis Quarles Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat; it is no less folly to fear what is impossible to be avoided than to be secure when there is a possibility to be deprived.
    ― Francis Quarles
    British poet (1592 - 1644)
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  • Boethius For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
    ― Boethius
    Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher (480 - 524)
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  • Boethius For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy.
    Source: De Consolatione Philosophia  Book 2, prose 4
    ― Boethius
    Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher (480 - 524)
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