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“Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes |
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“Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.”
Henry David Thoreau Quotes |
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“Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.”
Ayn Rand Quotes |
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“Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time”
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“Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.”
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“A library of wisdom, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it. Whoever therefore claims to be zealous of truth, of happiness, of wisdom or knowledge, must become a lover of books.”
Pablo Picasso Quotes |
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“So many people spend their health gaining wealth, and then have to spend their wealth to regain their health.”
A. J. Reb Materi Quotes |
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“This is an impressive crowd: the Have's and Have-more's. Some people call you the elites. I call you my base.”
George W. Bush Quotes |
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“Many men of course became extremely rich, but this was perfectly natural and nothing to be ashamed of because no one was really poor, at least no one worth speaking of.”
Douglas Adams Quotes |
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“A little house well fill'd, a little land well till'd, and a
little wife well will'd, are great riches.”
Unattributed Author Quotes Source: written in a copy of the "Grete Herbal"
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“There are, while human miseries abound,
A thousand ways to waste superfluous wealth,
Without one fool or flatterer at your board,
Without one hour of sickness or disgust.”
John Armstrong Quotes Source: Art of Preserving Health (bk. II, l. 195)
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“That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to
distribute, willing to communicate;
Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the
time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.”
Bible Quotes Source: I Timothy (ch. VI, v. 18-19)
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“And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through
the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the
kingdom of God.”
Bible Quotes Source: Matthew (ch. XIX, v. 24)
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“Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches
certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward
heaven.”
Bible Quotes Source: Proverbs (ch. XXIII, v. 5)
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“A faithful man shall abound with blessings; but he that maketh
haste to be rich shall not be innocent.”
Bible Quotes Source: Proverbs (ch. XXVIII, v. 20)
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“Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are
disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who
shall gather them.”
Bible Quotes Source: Psalms (ch. XXXIX, v. 6)
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“I have mental joys and mental health,
Mental friends and mental wealth,
I've a wife that I love and that loves me;
I've all but riches bodily.”
William Blake Quotes Source: Mammon
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“Since all the riches of this world
May be gifts from the devil and earthly kings,
I should suspect that I worshipped the devil
If I thanked my God for worldly things.”
William Blake Quotes Source: Riches
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“But I have learned a thing or two; I know as sure as fate,
When we lock up our lives for wealth, the gold key comes too
late.”
Will Carleton Quotes Source: The Ancient Miner's Story
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“Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their
thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God
Almighty has appointed this His universe to go.”
Thomas Carlyle Quotes Source: Past and Present (ch. VI)
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“Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to
administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.”
Andrew Carnegie Quotes Source: Gospel of Wealth
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“The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society.
[Sp., Las necedades del rico por sentencias pasan en el mundo.]”
Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) Quotes Source: Don Quixote (II, 43)
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“Not to be avaricious is money; not to be fond of buying is a
revenue; but to be content with our own is the greatest and most
certain wealth of all.
[Lat., Non esse cupidum, pecunia est; non esse emacem, vectigal
est; contentum vero suis rebus esse, maximae sunt, certissimaeque
divitiae.]”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes Source: Paradoxa (6, 3)
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“I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help
humanity forward, even in the hands of the most devoted worker.
The example of great and pure individuals is the only thing that
can lead us to noble thoughts and deeds. Money only appeals to
selfishness and irresistibly invites abuse. Can anyone imagine M
anyone imagine Moses, Jesus or Gandhi armed with the money-bags
of Carnegie?”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes Source: Paradoxa (6, 3)
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“Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity
and you need not give alms.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes Source: Wealth
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