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• 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.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Life, Happiness, Men

  Benjamin Franklin (1840). “The works of Benjamin Franklin: with notes and a life of the author by J. Sparks”, p.280

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• Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.

  Rachel Field

  Happiness, Oasis, Desert

  Rachel Field (1946). “And Now Tomorrow”

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• I do not seek good fortune - I am good fortune!

  Walt Whitman

  Fortune

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• Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

  Socrates

  Change, Remember, Fortune

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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

  Adversity, Bitterness, Bears

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• Moreover, a true Christian will not ascribe any prosperity to his own diligence, industry, or good fortune, but he will acknowledge that God is the author of it.

  John Calvin

  Christian, Prosperity, Diligence

  John Calvin (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.43, Baker Books

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• The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.

  Saadi

  Heaven, Earth, Faces

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• Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Time, Heart, Fire

  "In Our Youth Our Hearts Were Touched With Fire". Address delivered for Memorial Day at Keene, New Hampshire, before John Sedgwick Post No. 4, Grand Army of the Republic, people.virginia.edu. May 30, 1884.

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• All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.

  Anita Brookner

  God, Winning, Favors

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• It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of someone or other of their daughters.

  Jane Austen

  Daughter, Men, Views

  Pride and Prejudice ch. 1 (1813)

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• I don't believe in luck. We make our own good fortune.

  Joyce Brothers

  Believe, Luck, Fortune

  Joyce Brothers (1985). “How to get whatever you want out of life”

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• It is a great good fortune, as Stendhal said, for one "to have his passion as a profession.

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  Passion, Fortune, Said

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1988). “In Praise of Philosophy and Other Essays”, p.4, Northwestern University Press

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• Most people judge men by their success or their good fortune.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, People, Judging

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• Good fortune is a god among men, and more than a god.

  Aeschylus

  Men, Fortune

  "The Libation Bearers". Play by Aeschylus,

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• No matter what your laundry list of requirements in choosing a mate, there has to be an element of good luck and good fortune and good timing.

  Patty Duke

  Good Luck, Requirements, Matter

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• The most accurate representation of how I feel is that I'm incredibly lucky to be working in this structure where people get paid millions to read the news on TV. And, yes, it is insane. And there is nothing I can say beyond acknowledging my immense good fortune, and being aware that I'm blessed, and aware that it isn't going to last forever.

  Tom Hanks

  Blessed, People, Forever

  "Desert island risks", www.theguardian.com. January 12, 2001.

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• Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune.

  Owain Glyndwr

  Cousin, Fear, Long

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• All alike, you men. You only want the satisfaction of being through with us first, that's all. So far I've had the good fortune of beating you to it. So I am heartless.

  Greta Garbo

  Men, Heartless, Want

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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

  Inspirational, Gratitude, Pieces

  Autobiography pt. 3 (written 1788)

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• ...great difficulties are felt at first and these cannot be overcome except by starting from experiments .. and then be conceiving certain hypotheses ... But even so, very much hard work remains to be done and one needs not only great perspicacity but often a degree of good fortune.

  Christiaan Huygens

  Hard Work, Science, Luck

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• I do mean this - I had the good fortune of being around a number of Alzheimer's patients in the last three years of my mother's life. She was in a care facility that was devoted to just people with memory-loss issues. I found those people engaging and generous in ways that I had not imagined.

  James Rebhorn

  Mother, Memories, Mean

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• I had the good fortune of speaking with Orson Wells many decades ago and he said 'Success is primarily luck anyway.' And I have been very lucky. Of course, Orson Wells was enormously talented and brilliant - so who am I to argue with him!

  George Kennedy

  Luck, Arguing, Brilliant

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• Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.

  William Hazlitt

  Love, Envy, Justice

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1465, Delphi Classics

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• I wanted, I think, to acknowledge Luck: the chance of it, the benevolence of it in my life, and the brutality of it in the lives of others; made especially savage for children because they may not be allowed the good fortune of a lifetime to correct it.

  Paul Newman

  Children, Thinking, Luck

  Paul Newman, A.E. Hotchner (2003). “Shameless Exploitation in Pursuit of the Common Good: The Madcap Business Adventure by the Truly Oddest Couple”, p.102, Nan A. Talese

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• Up to a point a person’s life is shaped by environment, heredity, and changes in the world about them. Then there comes a time when it lies within their grasp to shape the clay of their life into the sort of thing they wish it to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune or the quirks of fate. Everyone has the power to say, "This I am today. That I shall be tomorrow.

  Louis L'Amour

  Life, Lying, Fate

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