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Fortune Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Government has come to be a trade, and is managed solely on commercial principles. A man plunges into politics to make his fortune, and only…
- Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.
- The Englishman who has lost his fortune is said to have died of a broken heart.
- A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.
- A man passes for that he is worth. What he is engraves itself on his face, on his form, on his fortunes, in letters of…
- Nature is no sentimentalist, - does not cosset or pamper us. We must see that the world is rough and surly, and will not mind…
- Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I…
- The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who…
- Genial manners are good, and power of accommodation to any circumstance, but the high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man is to…
- So use all that is called Fortune. Most men gamble with her, and gain all, and lose all, as her wheel rolls. But do thou…
- What is the end of human life? It is not, believe me, the chief end of man that he should make a fortune and beget…
- Night-dreams trace on Memory's wall Shadows of the thoughts of day, And thy fortunes, as they fall, The bias of the will betray.
- Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
- The secret of fortune is joy in our hands. Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung…
- The sinew and heart of man seem to be drawn out, and we are become timorous desponding whimperers. We are afraid of truth, afraid of…
- As we are, so we do; and as we do, so is it done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes.
- The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets,…
- It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires…
- Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
- The high prize of life, the crowning fortune of man, is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment…
More Fortune Quotes
- I'm swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune. — David Attenborough
- Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but… — Marcus Aurelius
- 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
- A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught… — Ibrahim Babangida
- 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