You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.
We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.
Fortune favours the bold.
Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.
Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.
Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life.
Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.
A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
Fortune confounds the wise, And when they least expect it turns the dice.
Though Fortune's malice overthrow my state, My mind exceeds the compass of her wheel.
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.
Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.
Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
Work hard at your job and you can make a living. Work hard on yourself and you can make a fortune.
Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face. Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear; but they are so, simply because they are the very ones he most needs.
Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.
Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.
In the same manner, having been reduced by disorder, and sunk to their utmost state of depression, unable to descend lower, they, of necessity, reascend; and thus from good they gradually decline to evil, and from evil again return to good. The reason is, that valor produces peace; peace, repose; repose, disorder; disorder, ruin; so from disorder order springs; from order virtue, and from this, glory and good fortune.
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