This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.
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My face has always been my fortune anyway, not my body.
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A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
At MIT, I had the good fortune for seven years to teach network theory, which is basic to many disciplines, to one-third of the undergraduate student body. It was an experiment to see how high we could bring their level of understanding, and it exceeded all of my expectations.
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All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.
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It is we that are blind, not fortune.
I don't need to make a fortune, I need to survive.
Your fortune is not something to find but to unfold.
The songs certainly have not made my fortune, but I am still grateful for the royalties when they come in.
I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.
In the western part of England lived a gentleman of large fortune, whose name was Merton.
When Elvis was performing, you just tried to figure out a way to get there. I think he set all the records and anyone that has ever had the good fortune to see him, you know what it's like to try to get in to see Elvis. It was impossible, practically.
Fortune befriends the bold.
It is strange, but nobody is shocked when pop singers make a fortune in the space of two years.
It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.
No matter what your laundry list of requirements in choosing a mate, there has to be an element of good luck and good fortune and good timing.
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Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.
Which reminds me of a fortune cookie: you often find your destiny on the path you take to avoid it.
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We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.
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Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
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I fought for years and spent a fortune fighting and never got anywhere.
For all of my fortune, there are many with misfortune that need a hand.
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Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
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Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune.
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There is no formula to making it to the NFL other than good fortune and and playing well in college.
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