#fortune

Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces. ↗

— Julius Caesar

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In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

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Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune? ↗

— Elias Canetti

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If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him. ↗

— Criss Jami

#beauty #confusion #depression #discern #discernment

Cast away care, he that loves sorrow Lengthens not a day, nor can buy tomorrow; Money is trash, and he that will spend it, Let him drink merrily, fortune will send it. ↗

— Thomas Dekker

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Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. ↗

— Charles Dickens

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Diligence is the mother of good fortune. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them. ↗

— Jane Austen

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Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door. ↗

— Torquato Tasso

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Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

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