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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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• Quote 1376

  Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love
  by: Albert Einstein

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• Quote 1372

  Fortune and love favor the brave
  by: Ovid

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• Quote 1183

  We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones
  by: Jules-Gabriel Verne

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• Quote 1069

  Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens
  by: Epiktet

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• Quote 1047

  Diligence is the mother of good fortune
  by: Benjamin Disraeli

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• Quote 944

  There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
  by: Epiktet

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• Quote 930

  Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails
  by: Euripides

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• Quote 919

  Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness
  by: Donald Robert Perry Marquis

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• Quote 690

  One man's meat is another man's poison
  from England

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• Quote 666

  Don’t count the chickens before they are hatched
  from England

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• Quote 625

  What ought to be done to the man who invented the celebrating of anniversaries? Mere killing would be too light
  by: Mark Twain

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• Quote 605

  Which death is preferably to every other? – The unexpected
  by: Gaius Iulius Caesar

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• Quote 572

  Fortune doesn't change a man, it only unmasks him.
  from Germany

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• Quote 553

  If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.
  from China

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• Quote 542

  My pride fell with my fortunes
  by: William Shakespeare

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• Quote 388

  It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.
  by: Mark Twain

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• Quote 169

  I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident
  by: Thomas Alva Edison

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• Quote 87

  Fortune sides with him who dares
  by: Vergil

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