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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.
Author: Unattributed Author
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.
Author: John Armstrong
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.
Author: Bible
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.
Author: Bible
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.
Author: Bible
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.
Author: Bible
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.
Author: Bible
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.
Author: William Blake
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.
Author: William Blake
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.
Author: Will Carleton
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.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
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.
Author: Andrew Carnegie
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.]
Author: Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)
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.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
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?
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: Paradoxa (6, 3)
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Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity
and you need not give alms.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: Wealth
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Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large
enough to cover.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: Wealth
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If your Riches are yours, why don't you take them with you to
t'other world?
Author: Benjamin Franklin
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.
Author: John Gay
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.
Author: Henry George
Source: Social Problems (ch. VI)
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If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
Author: Henry George
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.
Author: Thomas Gray
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.
Author: Walter Harte
Source: Eulogies (411)
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For wealth, without contentment, climbs a hill,
To feel those tempests which fly over ditches.
Author: George Herbert
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.
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Source: A Moral Antipathy--Introduction
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Base wealth preferring to eternal praise.
Author: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")
Source: The Iliad (bk. XXIII, l. 368), (Pope's translation)
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These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd!
Author: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")
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.
Author: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")
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.]
Author: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
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.]
Author: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
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.]
Author: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
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.
Author: Richard Hovey
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.
Author: Samuel Johnson
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.
Author: Ben Jonson
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.
Author: Junius
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.]
Author: Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal)
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.]
Author: Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal)
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.]
Author: Titus Livy
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.
Author: James Russell Lowell
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.
Author: Martin Luther
Source: Colloquies (p. 90), (ed. 1652)
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Infinite riches in a little room.
Author: Christopher Marlowe
Source: The Jew of Malta (act I, sc. 1)
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You often ask me, Priscus, what sort of person I should be, if I
were to become suddenly rich and powerful. Who can determine
what would be his future conduct? Tell me, if you were to become
a lion, what sort of a lion would you be?
Author: Marcus Valerius Martial
Source: Epigrams (bk. XII, ep. 92)
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The little sister of the Poor
. . . .
The Poor, and their concerns, she has
Monopolized, because of which
It falls to me to labor as
A Little Brother of the Rich.
Author: Edward Sanford Martin
Source: A Little Brother of the Rich
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Those who we strive to benefit
Dear to our hearts soon grow to be;
I love my Rich, and I admit
That they are very good to me.
Succor the poor, my sisters,--I
While heaven shall still vouchsafe me health
Will strive to share and mollify
The trials of abounding wealth.
Author: Edward Sanford Martin
Source: A Little Brother of the Rich
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But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security
for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties.
- Ik Marvel (pseudonym of Donald G. Mitchell),
Author: Ik Marvel (pseudonym of Donald G. Mitchell)
Source: Reveries of a Bachelor--Over his Cigar (III)
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Let none admire
That riches grow in hell; that soil may best
Deserve the precious bane.
Author: John Milton
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. I, l. 690)
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I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
Author: Edward Moore
Source: The Gamester (act II, sc. 2)
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The ungovernable passion for wealth.
[Lat., Opum furiata cupido.]
Author: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Source: Fasti (I, 211)
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Riches, the incentives to evil, are dug out of the earth.
[Lat., Effodiuntur opes irritamenta malorum.]
Author: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Source: Metamorphoses (I, 140)
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Embarrassment of riches.
[Fr., Embarras des richesse.]
Author: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Source: Metamorphoses (I, 140)
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