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Amelia Barr, fully Amelia Edith Barr Huddleston

This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or another, we pay for her favors; or we go away empty.

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Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks

Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical disguise.

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John Christian Bovee

The use we make of our fortune determines as to its sufficiency. A little is enough if used wisely, and too much if expended foolishly.

Enough | Fortune | Little | Wisdom |

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Boethius, fully Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius NULL

Keep the middle path of strength and virtue, lest you be overwhelmed by misfortune or corrupted by pleasant fortune. All that falls short or goes too far ahead, has contempt for happiness, and gains not the reward for labor done. It rests in your own hands what shall be the nature of the fortune which you choose to form for yourself. For all fortune which seems difficult, either exercises virtue, or corrects or punishes vice.

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Christian Nestell Bovee

The use we make of our fortune determines as to its sufficiency. A little is enough if used wisely, and too much if expended foolishly.

Enough | Fortune | Little | Wisdom |

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Pierre Charron

As full ears load and lay down corn, so does too much fortune bend and break the mind. It deserves to be considered, too, as another disadvantage, that affliction moves pity, and reconciles our very enemies, but prosperity provokes envy, and loses us our very friends.

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Richard Cecil

Every man will have his own criterion in forming his judgment of others. I depend very much on the effect of affliction. I consider how a man comes out of the furnace; gold will lie for a month in the furnace without losing a grain.

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Geoffrey Chaucer

Bewail lost time far more than gold in store. ‘For chattels lost may yet recovered be, but time lost ruins us for aye, says he. It will not come again, once it has fled... Let’s not grow moldy thus in idleness.

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Richard Francis Burton, fully Sir Richard Francis Burton

A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.

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Samuel Butler

Praise, like gold and diamond,s owes its value only to its scarcity.

Gold | Praise | Wisdom | Value |

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Miguel de Cervantes, fully Miguel de Cervantes Saaversa

A good name is better than bags of gold (riches).

Better | Gold | Good | Wisdom |

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Stephen Collett

There is no place invincible, wherein an ass loaded with gold may enter.

Gold | Wisdom |

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Benjamin Franklin

Early morning hath gold in its mouth.

Gold | Wisdom |

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Euripedes NULL

There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.

Change | Fortune | Happy | Wisdom |

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Benjamin Franklin

Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires.

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Benjamin Franklin

Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day.

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Gobyrus NULL

It is harder to find a man who can bear good fortune well than one who can bear misfortune well.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune is always here.

Fortune | Good | Wisdom | Learn |

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J. Paul Getty, fully Jean Paul Getty

The man who comes up with a means of doing or producing almost anything better, faster, or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.

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