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A sunny disposition is worth more than fortune.

As we are, so we do; and as we do, so is it done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes.

A thousand moral paintings I can show That shall demonstrate these quick blows of Fortune's More pregnantly than words.

A true philosopher is beyond the reach of fortune.

At the ches with me she (Fortune) gan to pleye; With her false draughts (pieces) dyvers/She staal on me, and took away my fers. And when I sawgh my fers awaye, Allas! I kouthe no lenger playe.

At the Feast of Fortune, she'll awaken, and the demigods will be cut down like-- like---" "Like our low prices at Bargain Mart!" Stheno suggested.

Audaces fortuna iuvat (latin)- Fortune favors the bold.

Avarice has ruined more men than prodigality, and the blindest thoughtlessness of expenditure has not destroyed so many fortunes as the calculating but insatiable lust of accumulation.

A wise man is out of the reach of fortune.

Basically, I'm living the life of an actress in L.A. And I've recently had some pretty good fortune.

Bear good fortune modestly.

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

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

Care clings to wealth: the thirst for more Grows as our fortunes grow.

Common sense among men of fortune is rare.

Contentment travels rarely with fortune, but follows virtue even in misfortune.

Covetousness, like a candle ill made, smothers the splendor of a happy fortune in its own grease.

Custom is the great leveller. It corrects the inequality of fortune by lessening equally the pleasures of the prince and the pains of the peasant.

Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.

Disruption is about risk-taking. But then you become a Fortune 500 company, which is about risk mitigation

Each one must do his part if we wish to show that the nation is worthy of its good fortune.

Every man is the maker of his own fortune

Every person - with his or her own skills, abilities and uniqueness - can contribute to others and bring great joy to those that fortune has not smiled upon.

Expect the Best, Expect Divine Guidance, Expect your Fortunes to Change, Expect a Miracle!

Fact be vertuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth

Fame and fortune are as hard to find as a lightning strike.

Fame an fortune are nothing if you're not happy and healthy.

Forbear harping on what was of yore, for it is the common lot of mortals to sustain the ups and downs of fortune.

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

For I did not want him to see, or to question me, for here contains already secrets, and my secrets are my fortune and my sanity.

For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying.

Fortune and love favour the brave. [Lat., Audentem Forsque Venusque juvant.]

Fortune favors the well-prepared.

Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us.

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Fortune has played me a sad trick by letting me live on and on.

Fortune is beastly - it is only suitable for cows and businessmen.

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

Fortune is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.

Fortune is for all, judgment is theirs who have won it for themselves.

Fortune is like glass - the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.

Fortune is painted blind, with a muffler afore her eyes, to signify to you that Fortune is blind.

Fortune makes many loans, but gives no presents.

Fortune ought to be a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master.

Fortunes are built during the down market and collected in the up market.

Fortune is never satisfied with bringing one sorrow.

Fortune moulds and circumscribes human affairs as she pleases. [Lat., Fortuna humana fingit artatque ut lubet.]

Fortune reigns in gifts of the world.

Fortune reveres the brave, and overwhelms the cowardly.

Fortune's not content with knocking a man down; she sends him spinning head over heels, crash upon crash.