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«Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ''This is a misfortune'' but ''To bear this worthily is good fortune.''»
Author: Marcus Aurelius
| Keywords:
fortune, good fortune, Here is, misfortune, tempts, This is a, worthily
«Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Fortune,
Happiness,
Mankind
| Keywords:
conveniences, fortune, good fortune, occur, pieces, pleasures, seldom, small fortune, to a man
«Diligence is the mother of good fortune.»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
(Novelist, Prime Minister)
| About:
Diligence
| Keywords:
diligence, good fortune, The Mother
«CALAMITY, n. A more than commonly plain and unmistakable reminder that the affairs of this life are not of our own ordering. Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
calamities, good fortune, ordering, orderings
«Everyone, all over the world, longs for the True Guru. Without the good fortune of destiny, the Blessed Vision of His Darshan is not obtained.»
«By great good fortune, you shall meet with the Lord.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib
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good fortune
«By great good fortune, the Lord's Congregation is found, while the unfortunate ones wander around in doubt, enduring painful beatings.»
«Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| Keywords:
deserved, good fortune, ingredients, mixture, undeserved