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«We make our own fortunes and we call them fate»
«We ought to give thanks for all fortune: it is is good, because it is good, if bad, because it works in us patience, humility and the contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| About:
Fortune
| Keywords:
contempt, give thanks, humility, IS IS, thanks
«The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing»
«The way of fortune is like the milky way in the sky; which is a number of smaller stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together; so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
Fortune
| Keywords:
asunder, customs, discerned, faculties, fortunate, milky, Milky Way, scarce, smaller, small fortune, small number, The Milky Way
«The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.»
«The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable; for the happy impute all their success to prudence and merit»
«To attract good fortune, spend a new penny on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon.»
«The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune»
«To be a well-favored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read comes by nature»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Fortune,
Gifts,
Nature,
Reading,
Writing
| Keywords:
by nature, favored, well-favored
«To be a well-flavored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read comes by nature.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Fortune,
Gifts,
Nature,
Writing
| Keywords:
by nature, flavored
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