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• It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

  Publilius Syrus

  Enemy, Pitiful

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• For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy

  Boethius

  Men, Unhappy, Ill

  De Consolatione Philosophiae bk. 2, prose 4 See Dante Alighieri 7

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• I got fame and fortune, and I lost my sense of reasoning.

  Little Richard

  Fame, Reason, Lost

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• There is no doubt the charge was an awful gamble and that no normal precautions were possible. The issue as far as I was concerned had to be left to Fortune or to God - or to whatever may decide these things. I am content and shall not complain.

  Winston Churchill

  Adversity, Issues, Doubt

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• The test of friendship is its fidelity when every charm of fortune and environment has been spent away, and the bare, undraped character alone remains; if love still holds steadfast, and the joy of companionship survives in such an hour, the fellowship becomes a beautiful prophecy of immortality.

  Hamilton Wright Mabie

  Friendship, Beautiful, Character

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• The man who begins to speculate in stocks with the intention of making a fortune usually goes broke, whereas the man who trades with a view of getting good interest on his money sometimes gets rich.

  Charles Dow

  Men, Views, Sometimes

  Charles Dow, Shread, Paul (2009). “Dow Theory Unplugged: Charles Dow's Original Editorials & Their Relevance Today”, p.314, Traders Press

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• If the winds of fortune are temporarily blowing against you, remember that you can harness them and make them carry you toward your definite purpose, through the use of your imagination.

  Napoleon Hill

  Wind, Imagination, Purpose

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.252, Penguin

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• Make haste! The tide of Fortune soon ebbs.

  Silius Italicus

  Haste, Tides, Tidy

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• Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Change, Reading, Entertainment

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• Who then may trust the dice, at Fortune's throw?

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Literature, May, Dice

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1966). “The Canterbury Tales”

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• [When anything happens, we interpret it as good or bad, but...] We do not know what is really good or bad fortune. [Only the future can decide. For example, what appears to be bad today may in fact lead us to a greater good tomorrow and by the very act of thinking and planning in that positive way, we can help make that good future come true.]

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Thinking, Example, May

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• Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.

  O. Henry

  Adventure, Shadow, May

  O. Henry (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)”, p.1277, Delphi Classics

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• [Envy not for...] Whatever difference there may appear to be in men's fortunes, there is still a certain compensation of good and ill in all, that makes them equal.

  Pierre Charron

  Gratitude, Men, Differences

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• Fortune does not change men; it only unmasks them. [..by how they choose to react to it.]

  Marie Jeanne Riccoboni

  Gratitude, Men, Doe

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• Jeronimo, my grandfather, swine-herder and story-teller, feeling death about to arrive and take him, went and said goodbye to the trees in the yard, one by one, embracing them and crying because he knew he wouldn't see them again. To truly appreciate life we must remember that nothing lasts for ever and take nothing we enjoy for granted. In so doing we stay grateful and happy for all our good fortune.

  Jose Saramago

  Goodbye, Gratitude, Grateful

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• Life is what our character makes it. We fashion it, as a snail does its shell. A man can say: I never made a fortune because it is not in my character to be rich.

  Jules Renard

  Fashion, Character, Men

  Jules Renard, Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Roget (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.269, Tin House Books

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• Fortune always fights on the side of the prudent.

  Critias

  Fighting, Prudent, Sides

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• We mistakenly assume that bodily survival has a higher precedence than ego survival. This is simply not generally true. Ego will happily destroy the body for its own sake. Look at overweight executives headed for heart attacks on the way to getting their pictures in Fortune or anorexic models suffering slow starvation on their way to getting their pictures in Vogue. Protecting ego is the general case.

  Karl Marlantes

  Heart, Ego, Survival

  Karl Marlantes (2011). “What It Is Like to Go to War”, p.65, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years.

  Martin Lewis Perl

  Depression, Children, War

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• Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship

  Adam Gopnik

  Reading, Pirate, Magazines

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• Luckily, I have the good fortune of being on the same team as Ray Lewis. I dont have to face him on Sunday.

  Jamal Lewis

  Team, Sunday, Rays

  "Jamal Lewis: First And Ten". Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. September 24, 2003.

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• From the beginning of the Radiation Laboratory, I have had the rare good fortune of being in the center of a group of men of high ability, enthusiastic and completely devoted to scientific pursuits.

  Ernest Lawrence

  Men, Groups, Radiation

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• We have reached the age, those of us to whom fortune has assigned a post in life's struggle, when beaten and smashed and biffed by the lashing of the dragon's tail, we begin to appreciate that the old man was not such a fool after all. We saw our parents wrestling with the same dragon, and we thought, though we never spoke a thought aloud, 'Why doesn't he hit him on the head?' Alas, comrads, we know now. We have hit the dragon on the head and we have seen the dragon smile.

  Ernest Lawrence

  Struggle, Wrestling, Men

  Speech at Thayer's tenth anniversary reunion at Harvard, 1895.

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• If you have no family or friends to aid you . . . turn your face to the Great West and there build up your home and fortune.

  Horace Greeley

  Home, West, Faces

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• All of us, I suspect, imagine that a world exists from which we alone have been excluded; all of us have our noses pressed against the glass. But if we contemplate our own lives, not the phantom life on the other side, we might find things in them to envy-a family that’s intact; a job we like; excellent health (the thing we take for granted and on which all happiness depends). Good fortune is there, however sporadic, however modest, however difficult to achieve. The trick is to recognize it.

  James Atlas

  Jobs, Glasses, Envy

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