#fortune

With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed. ↗

— Simone Weil

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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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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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History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

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Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune. ↗

— Owen Glendower

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Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

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True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

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