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A great fortune depends on luck, a small one on diligence.

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Against change of fortune set a brave heart.

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Behind every great fortune there is a crime.

Honoré de Balzac

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Fortune does not so much change men, as it unmasks them.

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Fortune favors the bold, but abandons the timid.

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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Fortune favors the prepared mind.

Louis Pasteur

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Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.

Oliver Goldsmith

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Fortune is like glass--the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.

Publilius Syrus

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Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.

James Russell Lowell

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Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.

Mark Twain

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Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.

Horace

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Fortune sides with him who dares.

Virgil

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Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.

Euripides

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Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.

Douglas William Jerrold

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Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.

Francis Quarles

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He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.

Benjamin Franklin

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Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.

Walt Whitman

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I am above being injured by fortune, though she steals away much, more will remain with me. The blessing I now enjoy transcend fear.

Ovid

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If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.

Horace

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In bad fortune hold out, in good hold in.

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It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.

John Dryden

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Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.

John Ruskin

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Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.

Ovid

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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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One's best fortune, or, their worst is their spouse.

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Speedy exception is the mother of good fortune.

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There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.

François de La Rochefoucauld

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There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound by shallows and in misery

William Shakespeare

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There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.

Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu

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Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

Francis Bacon

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We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Your fortune is not something to find but to unfold.

Eric Butterworth

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A great fortune depends on luck, a small one on diligence.

Against change of fortune set a brave heart.

Behind every great fortune there is a crime.

Fortune does not so much change men, as it unmasks them.

Fortune favors the bold, but abandons the timid.

Fortune favors the brave.

Fortune favors the prepared mind.

Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.

Fortune is like glass--the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.

Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.

Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.

Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.

Fortune sides with him who dares.

Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.

Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.

Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.

He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.

Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.

I am above being injured by fortune, though she steals away much, more will remain with me. The blessing I now enjoy transcend fear.

If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.

In bad fortune hold out, in good hold in.

It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.

Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.

Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

One's best fortune, or, their worst is their spouse.

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

Speedy exception is the mother of good fortune.

There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound by shallows and in misery

There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.

Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.

Your fortune is not something to find but to unfold.