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Loneliness and hunger were my fortunes of creation.

Look how men live, always precariously balanced between good and bad fortune.

Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.

Make haste! The tide of Fortune soon ebbs.

Many things happen between the cup and the upper lip.

Manners make often fortunes.

Many fortunes, like rivers, have a pure source, but grow muddy as they grow large.

Mens fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.

Men are themselves the source of their own fortune and misfortune.

Misery and misfortune is all one; and of misfortune fortune hath only the gift.

Misfortune may become fortune through patience.

Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.

Misfortune and Fortune are eerily similar, but Fortune is a better dresser and more fun at parties.

Most people who do have the instincts will never recognize that they do, because they don't have the courage or the good fortune to discover their potential.

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.

My good fortune is not that I've recovered from mental illness. I have not, nor will I ever. My good fortune lies in having found my life.

Never grieve for me if it is my good fortune to die with my boots on. That's what I most hope for.

My grandfather was a faith healer and medium and he always encouraged faith in the unseen. I believe in fortune tellers.

My pride fell with my fortunes.

ndustry is Fortune's right hand, and Frugality her left.

Nearly 7 in 10 Fortune 500 companies have a corporate Facebook page, and more than that have active Twitter accounts.

No hour brings good fortune to one man without bringing misfortune to another.

Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics.

Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.

No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.

Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great. [It., Il sangue nobile e un accidente della fortuna; le azioni nobili caratterizzano il grande.]

No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.

Nothing but pain, stuck in this game, searching for fortune and fame.

None can hold fortune still and make it last.

Not even the vicissitudes of fortune are contrary to nature or to the providential ordering of the universe. It all flows from the gods, who determine what is needed for the welfare of the whole universe, of which you are a part.

Not only ought fortune to be pictured on a wheel, but every thing else in this world.

Nothing keeps longer than a middling fortune, and nothing melts away sooner than a large one.

One who can find lemons sweet and grapes sour is ready for Dame Fortune.

O fortune, fortune! all men call thee fickle.

One should never risk one's whole fortune unless supported by one's entire forces.

Of what use is a fortune to me, if I cannot use it? [Lat., Quo mihi fortunam, si non conceditur uti?]

One good idea is all you need to start a fortune.

One's virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.

One way or another, if you're persistent, fortune always smiles on you.

Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune's always here.

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

On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.

People who make a living off other people's fortunes or misfortunes are parasites.

Receive the gifts of fortune without pride, and part with them without reluctance.

People talk about me as if I am the sole inheritor of the Guinness family fortune and worth masses, but I have hundreds of cousins.

Receive, dear friend, the truths I teach, So shalt thou live beyond the reach Of adverse Fortune's pow'r; Not always tempt the distant deep, Nor always timorously creep Along the treach'rous shore.

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

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

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.