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Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure in the end.… — Euripides
She shrugged. "You can be happy for someone else's good fortune, but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck. — Jodi Picoult
We are always in a hurry to be happy...; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good… — Alexandre Dumas
Her eyes flicked over the cards, looked at Dimitri, then looked back at the cards. Her expression was blank. "You will lose what you value… — Richelle Mead
Advising Mrs. Harris was the least I could do," David said smoothly. "After all, she was the one who brought me and my late wife… — Sabrina Jeffries
I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me. But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune:… — Marcus Aurelius
Yes, but I’ve already made my fortune in other things. (Solin) Such as? (Geary) Viagra. My brother learned to take a personal problem and profit… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity. — Mahatma Gandhi
Extraordinary beauty can be a curse to the one who possesses it. one pays a dear price for fame and fortune — Sandra Brown
- So my own sister will not promote me? Speaking of which, weren't you supposed to find me a beautiful future wife with a small… — Libba Bray
(Adron leveled a scowl that made him shrink back.) Jeeze, you ought to bottle that look. I know armies that would pay a fortune to… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
If a man is to lose his fortune, it is a good thing if he were poor before he acquired it, for poverty requires aptitude. — Geraldine Brooks
The most beautiful clothes that can dress a woman are the arms of the man she loves. But for those who haven't had the fortune… — Yves Saint Laurent
(Ash used his powers to lift Zarek from the floor and pin him roughly against the ceiling.) Stop pushing your luck, boy. I’ve had it… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis Nobler in the mind to suffer The Slings and Arrows of outrageous Fortune,… — William Shakespeare
The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works. — Miguel de Cervantes
Fear not, Cesario, take thy fortunes up. Be that thou know'st thou art and then thou art as great as that thou fear'st. — William Shakespeare
What does it mean to grow rich? Is it to have red-blooded adventures and to make a ‘fortune,’ which is what brought the whalers and… — Barry Lopez
In order to have a change of fortune at the last minute, you have to take your fortune to the last minute. — Terry Pratchett
For I did not want him to see, or to question me, for here contains already secrets, and my secrets are my fortune and my… — Sebastian Barry
Day after day I read Freud, thinking myself to be very enlightened and scientific when, as a matter of fact, I was about as scientific… — Thomas Merton
Good fortune opens the hand as well as the heart wonderfully; and to give somewhat when we have largely received, but to afford a vent… — Charlotte Bronte
Those whose work and pleasure are one... are... Fortune's favoured children. — Winston Churchill
We had the great good fortune and shortcomings of character that marked every generation that had never seen war. — Joshua Ferris
It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks. — Tacitus

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