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Fortune Quotes - Page 7

Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.

"Curiosities of Literature, Poverty of the Learned". Book by Isaac D'Israeli, 1766 - 1848.

The bitter dregs of Fortune's cup to drain.

Homer (1760). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.11

Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

The Love of Fame Satire 2, l. 282 (1725 - 1728)

If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond.

"Septem Sapientium Sententiae Septenis Versibus Explicatae". IV. 6,

Success is never final.

San Francisco Examiner, April 5, 2008.

Good fortune then! To make me blest or cursed'st among men.

William Shakespeare (2016). “WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Ultimate Collection: ALL 38 Plays & Complete Poetry (Including the Biography of the Author): Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Othello, The Tempest, King Lear, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Richard III, Antony and Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, The Comedy of Errorsäó_”, p.419, e-artnow

It is we that are blind, not fortune.

Sir Thomas Browne, Sir Kenelm Digby, Thomas CHAPMAN (of Exeter College, Oxford.) (1831). “Religio Medici”, p.36