Fortune
We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.
From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.
Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune.
There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.
The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune; it is also the basis of happiness. A person cannot accumulate a fortune very well when he is sick.
If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond.
Fortune is like glass — the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.
Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality its left.
Fortune befriends the bold.
Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
Memorial Day isn't just about honoring veterans, its honoring those who lost their lives. Veterans had the fortune of coming home. For us, that's a reminder of when we come home we still have a responsibility to serve. It's a continuation of service that honors our country and those who fell defending it.
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