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

Everybody is vulnerable through love of their children. Hostages to fortune.

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.

Every man is the maker of his own fortune

Every man is the artisan of his own fortune.

Every woman is the architect of her 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.

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

Fame and fortune, how empty they can be.

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

Fact be vertuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth

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 all of my fortune, there are many with misfortune that need a hand.

Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.

Fickle Fortune reigns, and, undiscerning, scatters crowns and chains.

Foolish indeed are those who trust to fortune.

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

Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.

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

Fortune, by being too lavish of her favours on a man, only makes a fool of him.

Fortune dreads the brave, and is only terrible to the coward.

Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.

Fortune had favoured me in this war that I feared, the rather, that some tempest would follow so favourable a gale.

Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.

Fortune is like glass; she breaks when she is brightest.

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.

Fortune's wheel takes you very high and then throws you very low, and there is nothing you can do but face the turn of it with courage.

Fortune resists half-hearted prayers.

Fortune soon tires of carrying anyone long on her shoulders.

Fortune tellers live in the future. So do people who want to put things off. So do fundamentalists.

Fortune, that favors fools.

Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.

Fortune, to show us her power in all things, and to abate our presumption, seeing she could not make fools wise, has made them fortunate.

Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy.

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.

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.