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  • Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good Fortune deceived not

  • The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends.

  • The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly and who can say to himself I shall to-day be uppermost.

  • John Dryden said:

    It is a madness to make Fortune the mistress of events Because in herself she is nothing but is ruled by Prudence.

  • He that waits upon Fortune is never sure of a Dinner.

  • Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.

  • Happiness and misery depend as much on temperament as on fortune.

  • Martial said:

    Fortune gives too much to many enough to none.

  • We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.

  • Saadi said:

    The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad Bows their heads down to the earth.

  • A great fortune is a great slavery.

  • Depend not on fortune but on conduct.

  • Mark Twain said:

    Fortune knocks at every man?s door once in a life but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.

  • Jane Austen said:

    It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

  • Boethius said:

    In omni adversitate fortunæ infelicissimum genus est infortunii fuisse felicem In every adversity of fortune to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.

  • I am not now in fortunes power: He that is down can fall no lower.

  • Luck is not chance Its toil Fortunes expensive smile Is earned.

  • It is difficult but not impossible to conduct strictly honest business. What is true is that honesty is incompatible with the amassing of a large fortune.

  • Only learn to seize good fortune for good fortune is always here.

  • O. Henry said:

    Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.

  • There is nothing keeps longer than a middling fortune and nothing melts away sooner than a great one. Poverty treads on the heels of great and unexpected riches.

  • Fortune is the rod of the weak and the staff of the brave

  • Fortune brings in some boats that are not steer?d.

  • Proverb said:

    Read the tea leaves.

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