Quotations Page 'F'

Fortune never seems to blind as to those upon whom she has bestowed no favours.

- La Rochefoucauld, Maxims -

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Every man is the architect of his own fotune.

- Mme Dorothy Keluzy -

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We make our own fortunes, and call them fate.

- Alroy -

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I succeed him; no one could replace him.

- Thomas Jefferson, On Being Made Envoy to France -

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There is no wisdom like frankness.

- Disraeli, Sytil -

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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.

- Bailey -

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None can love freedom heartily but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence.

- Milton, Tenure of Kings -

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We gain freedom when we have paid the full price for our right to live.

- Tagore, Fireflies -

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A man who is made for freedom has got to take tremendous risk and take everything.

- Mahatma Gandhi -

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The cause of freedom is the cause of God.

- Samuel Bowles -

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Sufficient to have stood, though free to all.

- Milton, Paradise Last -

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Love is only chatterFriends all that matter.

- Gelet Burgess, Willy and the Lady -

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Change your pleasure, but do not change your friends.

- Voltaire, La Depositaire -

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Most friendship is freigning, most loving mere folly.

- Shakespeare, As You Like It -

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There are three faithfull friends : an old wife, an old dog and ready money.

- Franklin -

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Adversity is the crucible in which friendship is tested.

- Mahatma Gandhi, Young India -

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Full well the busy whisper, circling round, conveyed the dismal tiding when he frowned.

- Goldsmith, Deserted Village -

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By Sowing frugality we reap liberty, a golden harvest.

- Agesilasus -

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Overjoyed was he to find,That though she was on pleasure, bentShe had a frugal mind.

- Cowper, John Cilpin -

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Though to her things grow fair against the sun,Yet fruits that blossom first will first be ripe.

- Shakespeare, Othello -

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