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

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

Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.

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

Misfortune may become fortune through patience.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.

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 hour brings good fortune to one man without bringing misfortune to another.

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

None can hold fortune still and make it last.

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.]

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

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.

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

O fortune, fortune! all men call thee fickle.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

…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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.