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«We make our own fortunes and we call them fate»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli (Novelist, Prime Minister) | About: Fate, Fortune | Keywords: fortunes
«We ought to give thanks for all fortune: it is is good, because it is good, if bad, because it works in us patience, humility and the contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country»
Author: C.S. Lewis (Novelist, Scholar) | About: Fortune | Keywords: contempt, give thanks, humility, IS IS, thanks
«The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton | About: Fortune | Keywords: envied
«The way of fortune is like the milky way in the sky; which is a number of smaller stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together; so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr. (Lawyer, Philosopher) | About: Fortune | Keywords: asunder, customs, discerned, faculties, fortunate, milky, Milky Way, scarce, smaller, small fortune, small number, The Milky Way
«The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr. (Lawyer, Philosopher) | About: Fortune
«The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable; for the happy impute all their success to prudence and merit»
Author: Jonathan Swift (Author, Satirist) | About: Fortune, Misery, Power | Keywords: impute
«To attract good fortune, spend a new penny on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon.»
Author: Proverb | About: Fortune, Friends, Friendship, Money | Keywords: attract, dragon, good fortune, lift, lift up, pennies, penny, The Wings, wings
«The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune»
Author: William Penn (Founder) | About: Fortune, Mankind | Keywords: blasts, tallest
«To be a well-favored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read comes by nature»
Author: William Shakespeare (Dramatist, Playwright, Poet) | About: Fortune, Gifts, Nature, Reading, Writing | Keywords: by nature, favored, well-favored
«To be a well-flavored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read comes by nature.»
Author: William Shakespeare (Dramatist, Playwright, Poet) | About: Fortune, Gifts, Nature, Writing | Keywords: by nature, flavored
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