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

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.

Every man is the maker of his own fortune

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

Every man is the artisan of his own fortune.

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

Fact be vertuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth

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

Fame an fortune are nothing if you're not happy and healthy.

Foolish indeed are those who trust to fortune.

Fame and fortune, how empty they can be.

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

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

For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy

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

Forbear harping on what was of yore, for it is the common lot of mortals to sustain the ups and downs of fortune.

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

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

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.

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

Fortune favors the well-prepared.

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

Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us.

Fortune always fights on the side of the prudent.

Fortune and glory, kid. Fortune and glory.

Fortune does not change men; it only unmasks them. [..by how they choose to react to it.]

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 favors the prepared.

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 is unstable, while our will is free.

Fortune, not wisdom, rules lives.

Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.

Fortune, like a coy mistress, loves to yield her favors, though she makes us wrest them from her.