#fortune

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful. ↗

— Charles Simmons

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In the western part of England lived a gentleman of large fortune, whose name was Merton. ↗

— Thomas Day

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Fortune favours the bold. ↗

— Virgil

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Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance. ↗

— Virgil

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You don't make a fortune doing cartoons. It's a lot of fun, it keeps you busy, and it's better than a kick in the pants, absolutely. But doing voiceover work doesn't make you rich. It just doesn't. ↗

— Patrick Warburton

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If I wasn't an actress I would run a fortune 500 company. ↗

— Sela Ward

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If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else. ↗

— Simone Weil

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Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one. ↗

— Edith Wharton

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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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