Fortune Quotes - Page 9
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What appear to be calamities are often the sources of fortune.
Benjamin Disraeli, Edmund Gosse, Robert Arnot (1904). “The works of Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield: embracing novels, romances, plays, poems, biography, short stories and great speeches”
The Alchemist prologue (1610)
What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 289-93, Translation of Greek Proverb, Book XIII. 17. 3, 1922.
Alfred P Sloan (2015). “My Years With General Motors”, p.16, eNet Press
Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.177, The Minerva Group, Inc.
William Somervile (1802*). “The poetical works of William Somervile, with the life of the author. Cooke's ed”, p.78
Fortune is painted blind, with a muffler afore her eyes, to signify to you that Fortune is blind.
William Shakespeare (1998). “Henry V”, p.187, Oxford University Press, USA
Women are not In their best fortunes strong, but want will perjure the ne'er-touched vestal.
William Shakespeare (2005). “Antony and Cleopatra”, Cambridge University Press
Washington Irving (2014). “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories”, p.33, Penguin
Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr
Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Critical & Miscellaneous Essays: Collected & Republished”, p.228
Each one must do his part if we wish to show that the nation is worthy of its good fortune.
Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.54, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
