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

— Walt Whitman

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Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all. ↗

— John Greenleaf Whittier

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Action makes more fortune than caution. ↗

— Charlotte Whitton

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I beg my Children to be just and virtuous, never to disgrace my name or theirs, and then they are out of fortune's power. ↗

— Thomas Willis

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The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

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In the same proportion Russia is the misfortune of Europe and the Israelites. ↗

— Isaac Mayer Wise

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As an athlete, you choose your sport and are drawn into it but your passion should never be driven by fame and fortune but a desire to create something special that people will always remember. ↗

— Katarina Witt

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One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune. ↗

— Peter Nivio Zarlenga

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There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension. ↗

— Paul Getty

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