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• Quote 3095

  Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it.
  by: Douglas William Jerrold

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• Quote 3075

  If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome
  by: Anne Bradstreet

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• Quote 2971

  All are architects of fate, working in these walls of time
  by: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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• Quote 2947

  The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have
  by: John Locke

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• Quote 2823

  My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it
  by: Charles Lamb

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• Quote 2789

  Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics
  by: Karl Kraus

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• Quote 2707

  A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it
  by: John Keats

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• Quote 2541

  I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act
  by: Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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• Quote 2327

  It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
  by: Jean de La Bruyère

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• Quote 2317

  The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes
  by: Jean de La Bruyère

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• Quote 2286

  We mortals cross the ocean of this world each in his average cabin of a life
  by: Robert Browning

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• Quote 2282

  The world and its way have a certain worth
  by: Robert Browning

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• Quote 2218

  Fortune is proverbially called changeful, yet her caprice often takes the form of repeating again and again a similar stroke of luck in the same quarter
  by: Charlotte Bronte

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• Quote 2188

  Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn
  by: Harriet Beecher-Stowe

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• Quote 2147

  There are no shortcuts in evolution
  by: Louis Dembitz Brandeis

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• Quote 2132

  But to us, probability is the very guide of life
  by: Joseph Butler

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• Quote 1961

  Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance
  by: Jane Austen

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• Quote 1958

  There are certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are of pretty woman to deserve them
  by: Jane Austen

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• Quote 1952

  It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife
  by: Jane Austen

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• Quote 1861

  You can't blame gravity for falling in love
  by: Albert Einstein

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• Quote 1796

  The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune
  by: Joseph Addison

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• Quote 1637

  Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
  by: Josh Billings

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• Quote 1621

  An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
  by: Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

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• Quote 1526

  You can never plan the future by the past
  by: Edmund Burke

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• Quote 1503

  One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines
  by: François VI. de La Rochefoucauld

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