Quotes 141 till 160 of 329.
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I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.
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I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.
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I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.
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I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind.
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I was born in London, England, in 1938, a few months before the war, and spent the first years of my life there, although I was evacuated a couple of times for short periods. My schooling was very interrupted, both by frequent moves and by ill health.
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I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.
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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.
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Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.
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If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.
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If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.
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If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average. Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly on the ventures where he is wrong.
― Bernard M. Baruch
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If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.
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If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge''
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Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, where wealth accumulates, and men decay.
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Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.
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Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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In all things preserve integrity; and the consciousness of thine own uprightness will alleviate the toil of business, soften the hardness of ill-success and disappointments, and give thee an humble confidence before God, when the ingratitude of man, or the iniquity of the times may rob thee of other rewards.
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In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
Source: De Consolatione Philosophia Book II, section 4, line 4 -
In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.
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In Montana, where Sen. William Andrews Clark made his fortune and lost his reputation, people had assumed that all his children were long dead. After all, he was born in 1839 and was of age to serve in the Civil War.
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