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“Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large
enough to cover.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes Source: Wealth
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“If your Riches are yours, why don't you take them with you to
t'other world?”
Benjamin Franklin Quotes Source: Poor Richard
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“Who hath not heard the rich complain
Of surfeits, and corporeal pain?
He barr'd from every use of wealth,
Envies the ploughman's strength and health.”
John Gay Quotes Source: Fables--The Cookmaid, Turnspit, and Ox
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“The ideal social state is not that in which each gets an equal
amount of wealth, but in which each gets in proportion to his
contribution to the general stock.”
Henry George Quotes Source: Social Problems (ch. VI)
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“If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.”
Henry George Quotes Source: Social Problems (ch. VI)
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“And to hie him home, at evening's close,
To sweet repast, and calm repose.
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From toil we wins his spirits light,
From busy day the peaceful night;
Rich, from the very want of wealth,
In heaven's best treasures, peace and health.”
Thomas Gray Quotes Source: Ode on the Pleasure Arising from Vicissitude (l. 87)
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“Dame Nature gave him comeliness and health,
And Fortune (for a passport) gave him wealth.”
Walter Harte Quotes Source: Eulogies (411)
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“For wealth, without contentment, climbs a hill,
To feel those tempests which fly over ditches.”
George Herbert Quotes Source: The Church Porch (st. 19)
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“It cannot be repeated too often that the safety of great wealth
with us lies in obedience to the new version of the Old World
axiom--Richesse oblige.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quotes Source: A Moral Antipathy--Introduction
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“Base wealth preferring to eternal praise.”
Homer ("Smyrns of Chios") Quotes Source: The Iliad (bk. XXIII, l. 368), (Pope's translation)
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“These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd!”
Homer ("Smyrns of Chios") Quotes Source: The Odyssey (bk. IV, l. 118), (Pope's translation)
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“Know from the bounteous heavens all riches flow;
And what man gives, the gods by man bestow.”
Homer ("Smyrns of Chios") Quotes Source: The Odyssey (bk. XVIII, l. 26), (Pope's translation)
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“Riches either serve or govern the possessor.
[Lat., Imperat aut servit collecta pecunia cuique.]”
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Quotes Source: Epistles (I, 10, 47)
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“For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now
obey the alluring influence of riches.
[Lat., Omnis enim res,
Virtus, fama, decus, divina, humanaque pulchris
Divitiis parent.]”
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Quotes Source: Satires (II, 3, 94)
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“Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed
no more than seaweed.
[Lat., Et genus et virtus, nisi cum re, vilior alga est.]”
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Quotes Source: Satires (II, 5, 8)
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“And you prate of the wealth of nations, as if it were bought and
sold,
The wealth of nations is men, not silk and cotton and gold.”
Richard Hovey Quotes Source: Peace
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“We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the
potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.”
Samuel Johnson Quotes Source: remark on the sale of Thrale's Brewery, 1781
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“Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home
Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy
To see how plump my bags are and my barns.”
Ben Jonson Quotes Source: Every Man Out of His Humour (act I, sc. 1)
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“Private credit is wealth; public honor is security; the feather
that adorns the royal bird supports its flight; strip him of his
plumage, and you fix him to the earth.”
Junius Quotes Source: Affair of the Falkland Islands (vol. I, letter XLII)
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“Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
[Lat., Rarus enim ferme sunsus communis in illa
Fortuna.]”
Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal) Quotes Source: Satires (VIII, 73)
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“He who wishes to become rich wishes to become so immediately.
[Lat., Dives fieri qui vult
Et cito vult fieri.]”
Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal) Quotes Source: Satires (XIV, 176)
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“It is easy at any moment to resign the possession of a great
fortune; to acquire it is difficult and arduous.
[Lat., Facile est momento quo quis velit, cedere possessione
magnae fortunae; facere et parare eam, difficile atque arduum
est.]”
Titus Livy Quotes Source: Annales (XXIV, 22)
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“The rich man's sons inherits cares;
The bank may break, the factory burn,
A breath may burst his bubble shares,
And soft, white hands could hardly earn
A living that would serve his turn.”
James Russell Lowell Quotes Source: The Heritage
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“Our Lord commonly giveth Riches to such gross asses, to whom he
affordeth nothing else that is good.”
Martin Luther Quotes Source: Colloquies (p. 90), (ed. 1652)
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“Infinite riches in a little room.”
Christopher Marlowe Quotes Source: The Jew of Malta (act I, sc. 1)
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