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Letter "F" » fortunes
«We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.»
Author: George Farquhar
(Dramatist, Poet)
| Keywords:
accidents, fortunes, intrinsic value, revolutions
«There is a growing feeling that perhaps Texas is really another country, a place where the skies, the disasters, the diamonds, the politicians, the women, the fortunes, the football players and the murders are all bigger than anywhere else.»
Author: Pete Hamill
| Keywords:
Another Country, Big Country, diamonds, disasters, football player, fortunes, murders, players, skies, Texas, The Diamonds, the Football, The Fortunes, The Women
«The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of philosophical delights, the most lasting joys; the being towards or for whom all their efforts tend for whom and by whom fortunes are made and lost; for whom, but especially by whom, artists and poets compose their most delicate jewels; from whom flow the most enervating pleasures and the most enriching sufferings / woman, in a word, is not, for the artist in general... only the female of the human species. She is rather a divinity, a star.»
Author: Charles Baudelaire
(Poet)
| Keywords:
artists, compose, delicate, delights, divinity, enervated, enervating, enriching, evening star, female, flow, fortunes, human species, in general, jewels, lasting, livelier, lively, philosophical, poets, species, sufferings, tend, The Source
«So they, who climb to wealth, forgetThe friends in darker fortunes tried.I copied them -- but I regretThat I should ape the ways of pride.»
«We make our own fortunes and we call them fate»
«There is an open terror of the critics (in New York) and of losing fortunes of money»
«Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.»
«The society of merchants can be defined as a society in which things disappear in favor of signs. When a ruling class measures its fortunes, not by the acre of land or the ingot of gold, but by the number of figures corresponding ideally to a certain number of exchange operations, it thereby condemns itself to setting a certain kind of humbug at the center of its experience and its universe. A society founded on signs is, in its essence, an artificial society in which man's carnal truth is handled as something artificial.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
Acre, acres, artificial, carnal, center of the universe, condemns, corresponding, disappear, exchange, figures, fortunes, handled, humbug, humbugged, humbugs, ideally, ingot, measures, merchants, operations, ruling, ruling class, Society of, thereby, The Center, The Ruling Class
«Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character»
«Rich, only to be wretched, thy great fortunesAre made thy chief afflictions.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
afflictions, chief, fortunes, wretched
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