quotes by topic Fortune

" 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. "
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Baltasar Gracian
Favors , Fortune
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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. "
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Irwin Shaw
Living , Time , Giving , Wife , Fortune , Chance
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" Every man is the architect of his own fortune. "
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Sallust
Man , Fortune
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" As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay. "
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Sallust
End , Blessings , Fortune , Beginning , Health
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" In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune. "
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Taylor Caldwell
Living , Sleep , Fortune , Being
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" It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training. "
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Ulysses S. Grant
Office , Fortune , Misfortune , Training
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" There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window. "
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Baron De Montesquieu
Fortune , Flies , Visit , Life
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" Fortune, that favors fools. "
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Ben Jonson
Favors , Fortune
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" I have a wife, I have sons; all these hostages have I given to fortune. "
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F. L. Lucas
Wife , Fortune , Son
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" Love, like Fortune, favours the bold. "
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E. A. Bucchianeri
Love , Fortune , True , Favour
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