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«True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island..to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.»
«There is a growing feeling that perhaps Texas is really another country, a place where the skies, the disasters, the diamonds, the politicians, the women, the fortunes, the football players and the murders are all bigger than anywhere else.»
«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»
«Let us remember, when we are inclined to be disheartened, that the private soldier is a poor judge of the fortunes of a great battle.»
«Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.»
«If I found any new truths in the sciences, I can say that they follow from, or depend on, five or six principal problems which I succeeded in solving and which I regard as so many battles where the fortunes of war were on my side.»
«His success may be great, but be it ever so great the wheel of fortune may turn again and bring him down into the dust»
«Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character»
«What do we lose by another?s good fortune? Let us celebrate with them, or strive to emulate them,That should be our desire and determination.»
«The most natively interesting object to a man is his own personal self and its fortunes. We accordingly see that the moment a thing becomes connected with the fortunes of the self, it forthwith becomes an interesting thing.»