Prosperity can change man's nature; and seldom is any one cautious enough to resist the effects of good fortune. [Lat., Res secundae… — Quintus Curtius Rufus Copy Share Image
“Fantastic fortune thou deceitful light, That cheats the weary traveler by night, Though on a precipice each step you tread, I am… — Aphra Behn Copy Share Image
The most natively interesting object to a man is his own personal self and its fortunes. We accordingly see that the moment… — William James Copy Share Image
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'Bunk' is better than 'Wheel of Fortune' because we have a wheel, just like them, but our wheel is purposeless. It doesn't… — Kurt Braunohler Copy Share Image
Emulation is grief arising from seeing one's self, exceeded or excelled by his concurrent, together with hope to equal or exceed him… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think the worst thing that could have happened to me would have been having a hit at 20. I don't know… — Cameron Mackintosh Copy Share Image
Reserve some hours daily to examine yourself and fortune; for if you embark yourself in perpetual conversation or recreation, you will certainly… — Anne of Austria Copy Share Image
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The NBA's a Fortune 500 company. That's how you look at it. And all the other Fortune 500 companies out there in… — Carmelo Anthony Copy Share Image
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The oyster leads a dreadful but exciting life. Indeed, his chance to live at all is slim, and if he should survive… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
... the transaction between a writer and the spirit of the age is one of infinite delicacy, and upon a nice arrangement… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
So much of what happened to me is good fortune. But I would say: Try to get a job that gives you… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar and ignorant people become possessed of splendid houses, splendidly furnished, do not of course,… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
Fortune may crowd a man's life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
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A man is thirty years old before he has any settled thoughts of his fortune; it is not completed before fifty. He… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
I'm a huge Cure fan. I love the Cure. The scales being tipped to when they weren't on a major label compared… — Isaac Brock Copy Share Image
Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, how to be free from it, that's the… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
I grew up poor. I had no money. My family was poor. There's things I wanted to do and couldn't. I was… — Anna Nicole Smith Copy Share Image
You should get married. When I was younger, I was into the fame and fortune, and now I realize that a loving… — Emo Philips Copy Share Image
There sometimes wants only a stroke of fortune to discover numberless latent good or bad qualities, which would otherwise have been eternally… — Greville Janner, Baron Janner of Braunstone Copy Share Image
But if you know that you are a man too, and that even such are those that rule, learn this first of… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
Far be it for me to have worked it out in any abstract way. I don't know why the bull and Mrs.… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Men appear to prefer ruining one another's fortunes, and cutting each other's throats about a few paltry villages, to extending the grand… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Our fortunes rise together, and they fall together. 'All men are brothers,' said the Analects. We have a collective responsibility-to bring about… — Christine Lagarde Copy Share Image
Come, my friend, forget your foes, and leave your fears behind, And wander forth to try your luck, with cheerful, quiet mind;… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
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Happiness doesn't come from making a fortune and owning lots of possessions. 'Stuff' doesn't bring happiness. Family, friends, good health and the… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
I had the good fortune and opportunity to come home and to tell the truth; many soldiers, like Pat Tillman… did not… — Jessica Lynch Copy Share Image
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I have had the good fortune to see how my articles have directly benefited some farmers and helped build markets for their… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
All things have their ends and cycles. And when they have reached their highest point, they are in their lowest ruin, for… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
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