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The more we take the less we become, the fortune of one man means less for some.

the Musgroves had had the ill fortune of a very troublesome, hopeless son, and the good fortune to lose him before he reached his twentieth year.

The occupation of the stock-jobber yields no new or useful product; consequently having no product of his own to give in exchange, he has no revenue to subsist upon, but what he contrives to make out of the unskilfulness or ill-fortune of gamesters like himself.

The path of the knowledgeable, successful person, which only leads to supreme good fortune and great success is always directly in front of you.

The people’s good fortune is my misfortune!

The permanency of most friendships depends upon the continuity of good fortune.

The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.

The poverty of yesterday was less squalid than the poverty we purchase with our industry today. Fortunes were smaller then as well.

The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind.

The prudent man really frames his own fortunes for himself.

There are some tempers--how shall I describe them--formed either of such impenetrable matter, or wrought up by habitual selfishness to such an utter insensibility of what becomes of the fortunes of their fellow-creatures, as if they were not partakers of the same nature, or had no lot or connection at all with the species.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

There aren't many millionaires who bowl over 100. Why not? Because they left the bowling league behind to build their fortunes.

There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.

There can be something cruel about people who have had good fortune. They equate it with personal goodness.

There is a common tendency to ignore the poor or to develop some rationalisation for the good fortune of the fortunate.

There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.

There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change of circumstances and varieties of fortune.

There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.

There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it.

There is no misfortune, but to bear it nobly is good fortune.

There is no defeat unless one loses God, and then all is defeat, though it be housed in castles and buried in fortunes.

There is no formula to making it to the NFL other than good fortune and and playing well in college.

There is nothing which continues longer than a moderate fortune; nothing of which one sees sooner the end than a large fortune.

There was more courage in bearing trouble than in escaping from it; the brave and the energetic cling to hope, even in spite of fortune; the cowardly and the indolent are hurried by their fears,' said Plotius Firmus, Roman Praetorian Guard.

The rest of the crowd were friends of my fortune, not of me. [Lat., Caetera fortunae, non mea, turba fuit.]

Therever fortune clears a way, thither our ready footsteps stray.

There's just no accounting for happiness, or the way it turns up like a prodigal who comes back to the dust at your feet having squandered a fortune far away.

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

the Sanctuary was reserved for the rich and elite--those with fortunes, not soldiers of fortune.

The short fortune-teller who escaped from prison: a small medium at large.

The sinew and heart of man seem to be drawn out, and we are become timorous desponding whimperers. We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other.

The whole process of nature is an integrated process of immense complexity and it is really impossible to tell whether something that happens in it is good or bad. Because you never know what will be the consequences of the misfortune. Or, you never know what will be the consequences of good fortune.

The Spaniards have a saying that there is no man whom Fortune does not visit at least once in his life.

The things you want professionally are opportunities. And through my good fortune that's what's happened. Opportunity has come to me.

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius.

Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.

The world has always been the same; and there is always as much good fortune as bad in it.

Those who have prospered and profited from life's lottery have a moral obligation to share their good fortune.

Those whom fortune has never favored are more joyful than those whom she has deserted.

The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.

To become aware in time when young of the advantages of age; to maintain the advantages of youth in old age: both are pure fortune.

Though women have small force to overcome men by reason; yet have they good fortune to undermine them by policy.

Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune.

To how many girls has a great beauty been of no other use but to make them expect a large fortune!

To make a fortune some assistance from fate is essential. Ability alone is insufficient.

To make wail and lament for one's ill fortune, when one will win a tear from the audience, is well worthwhile.

To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.

Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.