Up to a point a man's life is shaped by environment, heredity, and movements and changes in the world about him. Then there comes a time when it lies within his grasp to shape the clay of his life into the sort of thing he wishes to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune, or the quirks of fate. Everyone has it within his power to say, "This I am today, that I will be tomorrow."
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Formal education will make you a living self education will make you a fortune.
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To attract good fortune, spend a new coin on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend, and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon.
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Ae fond kiss, and then we severA farewell, and then foreverDeep in heart wrung tears I'll pledge thee, Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee. Who shall say that Fortune grieves him, While the star of hope she leaves himMe, nae cheerful twinkle lights me, Dark despair around benights me.
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Little ol' boy in the Panhandle told me the other day you can still make a small fortune in agriculture. Problem is, you got to start with a large one.
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Here rests his head, upon the lap of earth, A youth to fortune and to fame unknown; Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own.
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To endure is greater than to dare to tire out hostile fortune to be daunted by no difficulty to keep heart when all have lost it who can say this is not greatness
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If ignorance paid dividends, most Americans could make a fortune out of what they don't know about economics.
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A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.
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Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
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Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
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It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one but the success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest better lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune..
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Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
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Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us.
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Always accept good fortune with grace and humility.
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Many men can make a fortune by very few can build a family.
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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, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them To die to sleep No more and by a sleep to say we end The heartache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 't is a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep To sleep perchance to dream ay, there's the rub For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of Thus conscience does make cowards of us all And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprises of great pith and moment With this regard their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action.
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Thus far our fortune keeps an upward course, And we are grac'd with wreaths of victory.
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Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance.
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Wisdom and fortune combating together, If that the former dare but what it can, No chance may shake it.
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We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear. Although we can never rivet our fortune so tight as to make it impregnible, we may by our excessive prudence squeeze out of the life that we are guarding so anxiously all the adventurous quality that makes it worth living.
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For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.
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Will fortune never come with both hands full, But write her fair words still in foulest letters? She either gives a stomach, and no food, Such as are the poor in health; or else a feast, And takes away the stomach, such are the rich, That have abundanc
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This is the charm, by sages often told, Converting all it touches into gold: Content can soothe, where'er by fortune placed, Can rear a garden in the desert waste.
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