Quotes with ill-fortune

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• He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold.

  ― Baltasar Gracian
  Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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• He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate, and set proud death beneath his feet, can look fortune in the face, unbending both to good and bad: his countenance unconquered he can shew.

  ― Boethius
  Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher (480 - 524)
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• Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan.

  ― Barbara Ehrenreich
  American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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• Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.

  ― Walt Whitman
  American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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• Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ''This is a misfortune'' but ''To bear this worthily is good fortune.''

  ― Marcus Aurelius
  Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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• His designs were strictly honorable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.

  ― Henry Fielding
  English writer (1707 - 1754)
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• His success may be great, but be it ever so great the wheel of fortune may turn again and bring him down into the dust.

  ― Buddha
  Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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• Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.

  ― Democritus
  Greek scientist, astronomist and philosopher (460 - 380)
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• How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes deeds ill done!

  ― William Shakespeare
  English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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• Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

  ― Benjamin Franklin
  American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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• I am above being injured by fortune, though she steals away much, more will remain with me. The blessing I now enjoy transcend fear.

  ― Ovid
  Roman poet (43 - 17)
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• I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill.

  ― Samuel Butler
  English poet (1835 - 1902)
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• I do have big tits. Always had 'em - pushed 'em up, whacked 'em around. Why not make fun of 'em? I've made a fortune with 'em.

  ― Dolly Parton
  American singer and songwriter (1946 - )
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• I don't want to get married, and I don't want to work after I'm 30, so I must manage my fortune somehow in the next seven years.

  ― Anna Held
  Polish-born stage performer and singer (1872 - 1918)
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• I got fame and fortune, and I lost my sense of reasoning.

  ― Little Richard
   
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• I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.

  ― John D. Rockefeller
  American industrialist: founder Exxon (1839 - 1937)
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• I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.
  

  ― Lord George Byron
  English poet (1788 - 1824)
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• I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.

  ― George Gordon Byron
   
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• I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

  ― Hermann Hesse
  German-Swiss writer, poet and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1946) (1877 - 1962)
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• I have lived, and I have run the course which fortune allotted me; and now my shade shall descend illustrious to the grave.

  ― Virgil
  Roman poet (70 - 19)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• money-making
• unconquered
• notoriously
• illustrious
• henceforth
• misfortune

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