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fortune
«One of the most important lessons that experience teaches is that, on the whole, success depends more upon character than upon either intellect or fortune»
Author: William Edward Hartpole Lecky
(Essayist, Historian)
| About:
Character,
Experience,
Success
| Keywords:
character, depends, either, fortune, intellect, lessons, on the whole, teaches, The Fortunes
«The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise.»
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
| Keywords:
defied, defying, desert, deserting, fortune, Phoenix, revive, revives, reviving, skies, spite, The Phoenix, Through the Desert, wing
«One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.»
Author: Robert A. Heinlein
(Writer)
| About:
Fortune,
Generosity,
Joy,
Life,
Relationships
| Keywords:
fortune, generous, good fortune, joys, sanest, surest
«To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
cast, cast about, cast on, development, display, energy, faculties, fortune, lap, Lapped, lapping, laps, previously, resources, thrown, undergo, undergone, underwent, unsusceptible
«Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune is always here.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
fortune, for good, good fortune, seize
«Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
fortune, information, large, modern, moderns, practically, private, privates, source, The Source
«Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.»
Author: Socrates
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
condition, fortune, good condition, good fortune, Human condition, misfortune, overjoyed, permanent, scornful
«There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. We must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
affairs, current, flood, flooded, flooding, flood in, flood tide, fortune, leads, man of affairs, serves, The Current, The Flood, tide, ventures