#fortune

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. ↗

— William James

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Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not. ↗

— Ben Jonson

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Fortunes are made, and disappear, over the lifetime of a single generation. Today, a person in essence takes his wealth from society just for the duration of his or her lifetime. The next generation has to create it anew. ↗

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

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This ship was a league from us, and some of the men would have taken her, and I would not consent to it, and this Moore said I always hindered them making their fortunes. Was that not the reason I struck him? Was there a mutiny on board? ↗

— William Kidd

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Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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No excuses and no sob stories. Life is full of excuses if you're looking. I have no time to gripe over misfortune. I don't waste time looking back. ↗

— Junior Seau

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Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

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You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

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