#fortunes

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me that in this world, either physical or moral, good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

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History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes. ↗

— Voltaire

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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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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. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

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I am disposed to be thus particular from the interest you take in our welfare and from the entire confidence I have in your knowing, that you will be sympathetic with us in our misfortunes. ↗

— John Hawley

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Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes. ↗

— Napoleon Hill

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Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

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Then all the foreigners started coming over. I don't mind that but a lot of teams are laying out fortunes for ordinary players and that's no good for our youngsters coming through. ↗

— Paul Gascoigne

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What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed? ↗

— James Madison

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