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“Bad luck is always in search of followers and it finds them mostly amongst the pessimists.”

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Book:The Sunrise's Commandment

Source: The Sunrise's Commandment

“So much of people's fortune, good or bad, depends upon how they choose to fall in love.”

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Book:The Secrets of Wishtide

Source: The Secrets of Wishtide

“But remember, child, we may all have our own story and destiny, and sometimes our seemingly bad fortune, but we're all part of a greater story too. One that transcends the soil, the wind, time even our own tears. Greater stories will have their way.”

Way May Children Sometimes Stories Remember Destiny Greater Tears Wind Fortune Soil Bad Fortune

Author:Mary E. Pearson

“When the world was half a thousand years younger all events had much sharper outlines than now. The distance between sadness and joy, between good and bad fortune, seemed to be much greater than for us; every experience had that degree of directness and absoluteness which joy and sadness still have in the mind of a child”

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Author:Johan Huizinga

“Good and bad fortune are found severally to visit those who have the most of the one or the other.”

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Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The good or the bad fortune of men depends not less upon their own dispositions than upon fortune.”

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Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.”

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Author:Virgil

“I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.”

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Author:Hermann Hesse

“Granny knew all about bad fortune-telling. It was harder than the real thing. You needed a good imagination.”

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Author:Terry Pratchett

“Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.”

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Book:Cymbeline

Source: Cymbeline

“I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck. But my lawyer thinks he can get me five.”

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Author:Steven Wright

“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”

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Book:No Country for Old Men

Source: No Country for Old Men

“Never look at other people's bad fortune,' my mother said. 'If you do, it will come back to find you instead of its rightful owner.”

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Book:Incantation

Source: Incantation

“Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.”

Fall Our Lives Seeing Fortune Falling Apart Bad Fortune

Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“Trouble follows you like a shadow, Gillian. You're prone to injuries. I swear to God, if a tree decided to fall right now, it would find your head to land on." "Oh, for heaven's sake," she muttered. "I'll admit that I have had a run of bad fortune, but—" He wouldn't let her continue. "A run of bad fortune? Since I've known you, you've been beaten, stabbed and now shot with an arrow. If this keeps up, you'll be dead in another month”

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Book:Ransom

Source: Ransom

“We do not know what really good or bad fortune is.”

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Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“You cannot tell whether a person is good or bad by his vicissitudes in life. Good and bad fortune are matters of fate.”

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Book:Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.

Source: Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.

“All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck - who keeps right on going - is the man who is there when the good luck comes - and is ready to receive it.”

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Book:The Secret of the Ages

Source: The Secret of the Ages

“[When anything happens, we interpret it as good or bad, but...] We do not know what is really good or bad fortune. [Only the future can decide. For example, what appears to be bad today may in fact lead us to a greater good tomorrow and by the very act of thinking and planning in that positive way, we can help make that good future come true.]”

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Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.”

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Author:Saadi

“The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent - for every effect a perfect cause - and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.”

Source: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life

“We have to rise above bad fortune. We have to be in the good and enjoy the good, study and work and adventure and friendship and community and love.”

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Author:Joshua Prager

“Friends are much better tried in bad fortune than in good.”

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Book:Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

“Look how men live, always precariously balanced between good and bad fortune.”

Men Looks Fortune Balanced Good And Bad Bad Fortune

Book:Sophocles

Source: Sophocles