"Do not by any means destroy yourself, for if you live you may yet have good fortune, but all the dead are dead like."
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"So is Hope Changed for Despair-one laid upon the shelf, We take the other. Under heaven's high cope Fortune is god-all you endure and do Depends on circumstance as much as you."
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"How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!"
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"We make our own fortune and call it destiny."
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"What appear to be calamities are often the sources of fortune."
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"Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune."
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"To make wail and lament for one's ill fortune, when one will win a tear from the audience, is well worthwhile."
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"To be fortunate is God, and more than God to mortals."
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"For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying."
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"A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society."
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"On what slender threads do life and fortune hang."
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"I have often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortunes."
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"Women are not In their best fortunes strong, but want will perjure the ne'er-touched vestal."
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"Fortune is painted blind, with a muffler afore her eyes, to signify to you that Fortune is blind."
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"The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind."
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"Each one must do his part if we wish to show that the nation is worthy of its good fortune."
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"Man makes circumstances, and spiritually as well as economically, is the artificer of his own fortune."
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"Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down."
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"There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune."
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"The prayers of cowards fortune spurns."
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