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Fortune Quotes by Horace
- A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose…
- A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
- Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.
- Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.
- Lighten grief with hopes of a brighter morrow; Temper joy, in fear of a change of fortune.
- Ah Fortune, what god is more cruel to us than thou! How thou delightest ever to make sport of human life!
- Care clings to wealth: the thirst for more Grows as our fortunes grow.
- If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too…
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- I'm swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune. — David Attenborough
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- It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a… — Jane Austen
- There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them. — Jane Austen
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- He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or… — Francis Bacon
- Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall. — Francis Bacon
- Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible. — Francis Bacon
- The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but… — Francis Bacon
- You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family. — Anita Baker
- Behind every great fortune lies a great crime. — Honore de Balzac
- The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and… — Honore de Balzac