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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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.
. . . .
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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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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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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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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