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• Themistocles replied that a man's discourse was like to a rich Persian carpet, the beautiful figures and patterns of which can only be shown by spreading and extending it out; when it is contracted and folded up, they are obscured and lost.

  Plutarch

  Beautiful, Men, Speech

  Plutarch (2012). “Greek and Roman Lives”, p.61, Courier Corporation

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• If the poor ever feel poor as the rich do, we will have a most bloody revolution.

  Rebecca West

  Revolution, Wealth, Poor

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Thinking Reed”, p.263, Open Road Media

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• God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.

  Simone Weil

  Wealth, Mercy, Certainty

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.24, Routledge

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• Since, by your greatness, you
  Are nearer heaven in place; be nearer it
  In goodness: rich men should transcend the poor,
  As clouds the earth; rais'd by the comfort of
  The sun, to water dry and barren grounds.

  Cyril Tourneur

  Greatness, Men, Clouds

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• There are some rich people who, no matter how much God sends their way, never seem to put their hope in their riches.

  Andy Stanley

  People, Matter, Riches

  Source: paulsohn.org

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• What moistens the lip and what brightens the eye? What calls back the past like the rich pumpkin pie?

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Thanksgiving, Food, Eye

  1844 'The Pumpkin,' stanza 3.

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• No matter how much money we have or make, we will probably never consider ourselves rich. The biggest challenge facing rich people is that they've lost they're ability to recognize that they're rich.

  Andy Stanley

  People, Challenges, Matter

  Source: paulsohn.org

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• The rich experience of history teaches that up to now not a single class has voluntarily made way for another class.

  Joseph Stalin

  Class, Way, Made

  Joseph Stalin (1978). “1934-1940”

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• Elizabeth ... had the prerogative of the rich that she could be generous with large sums and niggardly over small ones.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Prerogative, Generous

  Sylvia Townsend Warner, Valentine Ackland, Susanna Pinney (1998). “I'll stand by you: selected letters of Sylvia Townsend Warner and Valentine Ackland : with narrative by Sylvia Townsend Warner”, Random House (UK)

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• I was very sad for many days when I discovered that in the world there were poor people and rich people; and the strange thing is that the existence of the poor did not cause me as much pain as the knowledge that at the same time there were people who were rich.

  Evita Peron

  Pain, People, World

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• He hazardeth much who depends for his learning on experience. An unhappy master, he that is only made wise by many shipwrecks; a miserable merchant, that is neither rich nor wise till he has been bankrupt. By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.

  Roger Ascham

  Wise, Long, Experience

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• The crisis in America that we barely notice anymore is that we've become two nations - divided by poverty, opportunity, and race. It's like a neighbor's car alarm that we don't hear anymore because it rings so often.

  Arianna Huffington

  Opportunity, Two, America

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• While it is undeniable that many have been driven to immorality and crime by the need to survive, it is equally evident that the possession of a significant surplus of material goods has never been a guarantee against covetousness, rapacity and the infinite variety of vice and pain which spring from such passions. Indeed, it could be argued that the unrelenting compulsion of those who already have much to acquire even more has generated greater injustice, immorality and wretchedness than the cumulative effect of the struggles of the severely underprivileged to better their lot.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Pain, Spring, Struggle

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• One of the marks of true genius is a quality of abundance. A rich, rollicking abundance, enough to give indigestion to ordinary people. Great artists turn it out in rolls, in swatches. They cover whole ceilings with paintings, they chip out a mountainside in stone, they write not one novel but a shelf full. It follows that some of their work is better than other. As much as a third of it may be pretty bad. Shall we say this unevenness is the mark of their humanity - of their proud mortality as well as of their immortality?

  Catherine Drinker Bowen

  Writing, Artist, People

  Catherine Drinker Bowen (1961). “The Nature of the Artist: An Address Delivered at the Dedication Ceremonies for Lee Pattison Recital Hall, Wilbur Hall, Mary Kimberly Residence Hall”

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• In recent years, we've become enamored with our own past success. Lulled into complacency by the glitter of our own achievements. We've become accustomed to the title of Military Superpower, forgetting the qualities that got us there. We've become accustomed to our economic dominance in the world, forgetting that it wasn't reckless deals and get rich quick schemes that got us where we are, but hard work and smart ideas, quality products and wise investments.

  Barack Obama

  Wise, Military, Smart

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• Most rich people are the poorest people I know.

  Elsa Maxwell

  People, Knows, Poorest

  Elsa Maxwell (1954). “R.S.V.P.: Elsa Maxwell's own story”

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• The rich are never threatened by the poor - they do not notice them.

  Marie de France

  Poor, Rich And Poor, Threatened

  Marie (de France) (1983). “Medieval fables”, Dodd Mead

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• the distinction between rich nations and poor nations is one of the great dominant political and international themes of our century.

  Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

  Political, Poor Nations, Theme

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• the wealthy white western minority of the world could not hope to prosper if most of the rest of mankind were foundering in hopeless poverty. Islands of plenty in a vast ocean of misery never have been a good recipe for commercial success.

  Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

  Ocean, White, Islands

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• You is born lucky, and it's better to be born lucky than born rich, cause if you is lucky you can git rich, but if you is born rich and you ain't lucky you is liables to lose all you got.

  Margaret Walker

  Luck, Causes, Born

  Margaret Walker (2016). “Jubilee (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.496, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• And wheresoever, in his rich creation,
  Sweet music breathes--in wave, or bird, or soul--
  'Tis but the faint and far reverberation
  Of that great tune to which the planets roll!

  Frances Sargent Osgood

  Music, Sweet, Bird

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• Don't think to come over me with th' old tale, that the rich know nothing of the trials of the poor; I say, if they don't know, they ought to know.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Thinking, Trials, Poor

  Elizabeth Gaskell (1872). “Mary Barton a Tale of Manchester Life by Mrs. Gaskell”, p.6

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• There are some people whom we envy not because they are rich or handsome or successful, although they may be all or any of these, but because everything they are or do seems to be all of a piece, so that even if they wanted to they could not be or do otherwise.

  Elizabeth Bishop

  Success, People, Envy

  Elizabeth Bishop (2008). “Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters”

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• Diamonds are the tears of the poor.

  Helen McCloy

  Jewels, Tears, Poor

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• To see rich land eaten away by erosion, to stand by as continual cultivation on sloping fields wears away the best soil, is enough to make a good farmer sick at heart.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Heart, Erosion, Land

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