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Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune's always here.
Fortune
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.
Fortune
Oliver Goldsmith

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Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune.
Poverty and The Poor
Thomas Gray

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Mens fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.
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Herodotus

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If a little labor, little are our gains. Man's fortunes are according to his pains.
Labor
Robert Herrick

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A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing.
Neighbors
Hesiod

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Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.
Money
Napoleon Hill

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Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
Opportunity
Napoleon Hill

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Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.
Fortune
Horace

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Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
Adversity
Washington Irving

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Misfortune does not always result in harm.
Misfortunes
Italian Proverb

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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
Adversity
William James

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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.
Work
James Weldon Johnson

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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
Complaints and Complaining
Samuel Johnson

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.
Wisdom
(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal

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We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.
Achievement
Jean De La Fontaine

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Fortune and humor govern the world.
Humor
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
Friends and Friendship
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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Moderation in people who are contented comes from that calm that good fortune lends to their spirit.
Moderation
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
Temper
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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The happiness or unhappiness of men depends as much on their humors as on fortune.
Humor
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
Strength
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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Fortune favors the bold, but abandons the timid.
Fortune
Latin Proverb

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The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.
Sorrow
Stephen B. Leacock

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Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.
Ignorance
Nicholas Ling

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[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun