#fortune

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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I am disposed to be thus particular from the interest you take in our welfare and from the entire confidence I have in your knowing, that you will be sympathetic with us in our misfortunes. ↗

— John Hawley

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Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past. ↗

— Francis Herbert Hedge

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A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes. ↗

— Joseph Addison

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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

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You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family. ↗

— Anita Baker

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I'm becoming more squeamish. I didn't use to be - nine years of 'Silent Witness' prepared me for most things one will have the misfortune to see in life. Before, I'd be wading up to my neck in gore, but now I tend to look away. ↗

— Amanda Burton

#becoming #before #gore #i #life

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition. ↗

— Luc de Clapiers

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