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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»
Author: William Edward Hartpole Lecky
(Essayist, Historian)
| About:
Character,
Experience,
Success
| Keywords:
character, depends, either, fortune, intellect, lessons, on the whole, teaches, The Fortunes
«The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise.»
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
| Keywords:
defied, defying, desert, deserting, fortune, Phoenix, revive, revives, reviving, skies, spite, The Phoenix, Through the Desert, wing
«One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.»
Author: Robert A. Heinlein
(Writer)
| About:
Fortune,
Generosity,
Joy,
Life,
Relationships
| Keywords:
fortune, generous, good fortune, joys, sanest, surest
«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»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
cast, cast about, cast on, development, display, energy, faculties, fortune, lap, Lapped, lapping, laps, previously, resources, thrown, undergo, undergone, underwent, unsusceptible
«The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.»
«Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune is always here.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
fortune, for good, good fortune, seize
«Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
fortune, information, large, modern, moderns, practically, private, privates, source, The Source
«Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.»
Author: Socrates
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
condition, fortune, good condition, good fortune, Human condition, misfortune, overjoyed, permanent, scornful
«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.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
affairs, current, flood, flooded, flooding, flood in, flood tide, fortune, leads, man of affairs, serves, The Current, The Flood, tide, ventures
«There's plenty of time to bemoan bad fortune once it arrives»
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