#fortune

There is a power in public opinion in this country - and I thank God for it: for it is the most honest and best of all powers - which will not tolerate an incompetent or unworthy man to hold in his weak or wicked hands the lives and fortunes of his fellow-citizens. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

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Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great. ↗

— Johann Georg Zimmermann

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Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low. ↗

— Ovid

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There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

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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

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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

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Which reminds me of a fortune cookie: you often find your destiny on the path you take to avoid it. ↗

— Hector Elizondo

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In the western part of England lived a gentleman of large fortune, whose name was Merton. ↗

— Thomas Day

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Your fortune is not something to find but to unfold. ↗

— Eric Butterworth

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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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