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«One of the most important lessons that experience teaches is that, on the whole, success depends more upon character than upon either intellect or fortune»
«The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise.»
«One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.»
«To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible»
«The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.»
«Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune is always here.»
«Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.»
«Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.»
«There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. We must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.»
«There's plenty of time to bemoan bad fortune once it arrives»

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