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See your disappointments as good fortune. One plan's deflation is another's inflation.

…she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children.

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.

So is Hope Changed for Despair-one laid upon the shelf, We take the other. Under heaven's high cope Fortune is god-all you endure and do Depends on circumstance as much as you.

Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don't; but we wear it all the same

Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.

That is a most wretched fortune which is without an enemy.

Someone responding to intuition, to chance and fortune, often can't explain himself well.

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

Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.

The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. [Lat., Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare.]

The best way to handle good fortune is to do something positive and useful with it. The best way to handle misfortune is exactly the same.

That which we acquire with the most difficulty we retain the longest; as those who have earned a fortune are usually more careful of it than those who have inherited one.

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The bitter dregs of Fortune's cup to drain.

The fate of all of us here has been to know that we are prisoners of power. No one knows why us in particular, but what a great fortune!

The folly of one man is the fortune of another.

The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity belonging to them.

The French just said he was a damned nuisance. Or they would have had they the good fortune to speak English. Instead being French they were forced to say it in their own language.

The goods of Fortune, even such as they really are, still need taste to enjoy them. It is the enjoying no the possessing, that makes us happy.

The fortune of our lives depends on employing well the short period of our youth.

The mold of our fortunes is in our own hands.

The human propensity is to believe that flukes of good fortune will never come to an end.

The inequality of income and fortunes is essential in capitalism.

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

The people’s good fortune is my misfortune!

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 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.

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

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

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.

The prudent man really frames his own fortunes for himself.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 better fitted to delight the reader than change of circumstances and varieties of fortune.

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

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.

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.