Quotes with ill-fortune

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• For many Americans, including many who are employed, going to the doctor when they fall ill or become injured may not be an option because of the absence of health insurance.

  ― Ben Nelson
  American politician, businessman and lawyer (1941 - )
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• For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?

  ― Thornton Wilder
  American writer and playwright (1897 - 1975)
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• Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

  ― Jim Rohn
  American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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• Fortune and humor govern the world.

  ― Francois de la Rochefoucauld
  French writer (1613 - 1680)
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• Fortune and love favor the brave.

  ― Ovid
  Roman poet (43 - 17)
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• Fortune befriends the bold.

  ― John Dryden
  English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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• Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

  ― Seneca
  Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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• Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance,
  And toss them on the wheels of Chance.

  ― Juvenal
  Roman poet
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• Fortune cannot be flattered by such fetish worship. But she can be wooed and won by hard work.

  ― Lord Beaverbrook
   
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• Fortune favors the brave.

  ― Virgil
  Roman poet (70 - 19)
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• Fortune favors the prepared mind.

  ― Louis Pasteur
  French scientist (1822 - 1895)
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• Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

  ― Marcus Valerius Martial
  Latin poet and epigrammatist (40 - 104)
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• Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.

  ― Isaac D'Israeli
  British scholar and writer (1766 - 1848)
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• Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away.

  ― Charles V
  Holy Roman Emperor and Archduke of Austria
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• Fortune helps the brave.

  ― Terence
  Roman writer of comedies (190 - 159)
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• Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.

  ― Oliver Goldsmith
  Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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• Fortune is like glass - the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.

  ― Publilius Syrus
  Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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• Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

  ― Francis Bacon
  English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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• Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.

  ― James Russell Lowell
  American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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• Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.

  ― Mark Twain
  American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• self-education
• condescended
• accompanying
• neighboring
• befriends
• flattered

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