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• Cease to ask what the morrow
  will bring forth,
  and set down as gain
  each day that fortune grants.

  Horace

  Happiness, Each Day, Gains

  Horace (1927). “The Odes and Epodes”

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• The result showed that fortune helps the brave.

  Livy

  Brave, Helping, Results

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book VIII, section 29,

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• The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.

  Herodotus

  Men, Luck, Sides

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• What ever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

  A. A. Milne

  Fear, Action

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• If the work is poor, the public taste will soon do it justice. And the author, reaping neither glory nor fortune, will learn by hard experience how to correct his mistakes.

  Jacques-Louis David

  Mistake, Justice, Taste

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• Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

  Horace

  Life, Everyday, Asking

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• I beg my Children to be just and virtuous, never to disgrace my name or theirs, and then they are out of fortune's power

  Thomas Willis

  Children, Power, Names

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• Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Men, Giving, Slavery

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.313, Library of Alexandria

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• By going solo I could lose a fortune but money is not important.

  Barry Gibb

  Important, Solo, Loses

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• Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance,
  And toss them on the wheels of Chance.

  Juvenal

  Toss, Fool, Wheels

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• It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.

  Petrarch

  Thrones, Merit, Born

  "Madalyn Aslan's Jupiter Signs: How to Improve Your Luck, Career, Health, Finances, Appearance, and Relationships Through the New Astrology". Book by Madalyn Aslan, 2003.

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• An accident is an inevitable occurrence due to the actions of immutable natural laws.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Law, Action, Natural

  Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.567, Library of America

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• Mens fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.

  Herodotus

  Men, Suffering, Wheels

  Herodotus (1990). “Herodotus”, Loeb Classical Library

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• Fortune, men say, doth give too much to many, But yet she never gave enough to any.

  John Harington

  Men, Giving, Too Much

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• I don't need to make a fortune, I need to survive.

  Solomon Burke

  Needs

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• If I wasn't an actress I would run a fortune 500 company.

  Sela Ward

  Running, Actresses, Company

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• An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.

  Bodhidharma

  Meditation, Dharma, Persons

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• Fortune is said to be blind, but her favorites never are. Ambition has the eye of the eagle, prudence that of the lynx; the first looks through the air, the last along the ground.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Ambition, Eye, Air

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• A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.

  Benjamin Rush

  Men, Pioneers, Credit

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• Fortune is like a widow won,And truckles to the bold alone.

  William Somervile

  Widows

  William Somervile (1802*). “The poetical works of William Somervile, with the life of the author. Cooke's ed”, p.78

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• Fortune comes well to all that comes not late.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Late, Wells

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.78

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• A good man's fortune may grow out at heels.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Good Man, May

  1605-6 Kent. King Lear, act 2, sc.2, l.148.

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• Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.

  Alexander Pope

  Inspirational, Honesty, Long

  Alexander Pope (1776). “Works”, p.128

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• Something is always wanting to incomplete fortune.
  [Lat., Curtae nescio quid semper abest rei.]

  Horace

  Incomplete

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• I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.

  Horace

  Wings, Lasts, Poverty

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 289-93, Carmina, III. 29, 1922.

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