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Letter "F" » fortune
«No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.»
«Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ''This is a misfortune'' but ''To bear this worthily is good fortune.''»
«Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
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Inventor,
Philosopher,
Printer,
Scientist,
Statesman,
Writer)
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About:
Fortune,
Happiness,
Mankind
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Keywords:
conveniences,
fortune,
good fortune,
occur,
pieces,
pleasures,
seldom,
small fortune,
to a man
«FRIENDLESS, adj. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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Editor,
Journalist,
Writer)
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Keywords:
addict,
addicted,
addicts,
adj,
bestow,
bestowing,
common sense,
destitute,
destitute of,
favors,
fortune,
friendless,
utterance
«His success may be great, but be it ever so great the wheel of fortune may turn again and bring him down into the dust»
Author: Buddha
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About:
Success
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Keywords:
again,
bring,
down,
dust,
dusted,
dusting,
Dust to Dust,
ever so,
fortune,
The Fortunes,
The wheel,
The Wheel of Fortune,
turn,
turn down,
wheel,
wheeled
«It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife»
«Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.»
«Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune.»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Lawyer,
Orator,
Scholar,
Statesman,
Writer)
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Keywords:
contributes,
contributing,
entertainment,
fortune,
reader,
vicissitude,
vicissitudes
«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 ten times as much skill to keep it.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Essayist,
Lecturer,
Poet)
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Keywords:
a great deal,
boldness,
caution,
cautioned,
cautions,
fortune,
great deal,
skill,
with boldness
«O! I am fortune's fool!»