#fortune

There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#inconstancy #nothing #subject #war

Cast away care, he that loves sorrow Lengthens not a day, nor can buy tomorrow; Money is trash, and he that will spend it, Let him drink merrily, fortune will send it. ↗

— Thomas Dekker

#buy #care #cast #day #drink

Diligence is the mother of good fortune. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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Which reminds me of a fortune cookie: you often find your destiny on the path you take to avoid it. ↗

— Hector Elizondo

#cookie #destiny #find #fortune #me

Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate. ↗

— Virgil

#help #i #learn #misfortune #myself

The greatest good fortune of my return to Cambridge in 1946 was that there, in the spring, I met Elizabeth Fay Ringo. We were married a few months later. ↗

— James Tobin

#elizabeth #fay #few #fortune #good

A life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shining star in whose light others may follow in the years to come. ↗

— Denis Waitley

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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

#easy #had #hardening #her #instead

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

— Walt Whitman

#ask #fortune #good #good fortune #henceforth

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

#fall #field #flower #fools #fortune