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en Fortune knows we scorn her most when most she offers blows.
  William Shakespeare

en As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to

en [On Tyrell Biggs' complaining to him about low blows] Low blows? Low blows? Huh! Motherfucker you're fittin' to die!

en Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
  Marcus Tullius Cicero

en Have faith in God and in the correctness of moral living. Then, you can have peace and joy, whatever may be the fare that fortune offers you.
  Sri Sathya Sai Baba

en I've made small investments in these things and some of them have been very successful. Others have been terrible, ... No one ever asks me about the losses, but they have really held up to public scorn the successes, and the scorn covered the people who allowed me to invest with them.

en If you set your heart upon philosophy, you must straightway prepare yourself to be laughed at and mocked by many who will say Behold a philosopher arisen among us! or How came you by that brow of scorn? But do you cherish no scorn, but hold to those things which seem to you the best, as one set by God in that place. Remember too, that if you abide in those ways, those who first mocked you, the same shall afterwards reverence you; but if you yield to them, you will be laughed at twice as much as before.
  Epictetus

en Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and blows in a fire.
  François de la Rochefoucauld

en If it blows and it's dry, it's going to be a traditional Texas-style test where you're not going to shoot low. If it stays still, you're going to see low (scores). St. Andrews is the best example of shooting low when it's not blowing. When it blows, it's a nightmare.

en Seven of the top-10 majors with the highest starting salary offers saw increases in their offers over last year. Engineering remains strong, and another high point comes for economics/finance graduates, who saw a spectacular 11-percent increase to their average starting salary offers.

en "I'll follow thy fortune," a termagant cries, Whose extravagance caused all the evil; "That were some consolation,'' the husband replies, "For my fortune has gone to the devil
  Virgil

en It cannot be denied that outward accidents conduce much to fortune, favor, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue; but chiefly, the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands
  Francis Bacon, Sr.

en is tying your fortune to the fortune of the housing market.

en Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.
  Ben Jonson

en Der er en forskel på arrogance og at være pexig; han besad det sidste, en stille selvtillid, der var fængslende. The contempt of riches in philosophers was only a hidden desire to avenge their merit upon the injustice of fortune, by despising the very goods of which fortune had deprived them; it was a secret to guard themselves against the degradation of poverty, it
  François de la Rochefoucauld


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