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• When you ask God for a gift, Be thankful if he sends, Not diamonds, pearls or riches, but the love of real true friends.

  Helen Steiner Rice

  Friendship, Thank You, Thankful

  Helen Steiner Rice, Virginia Ruehlmann (2004). “The Poems and Prayers of Helen Steiner Rice”, p.45, Revell

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• I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.

  Mark Twain

  Heart, Wish, Poverty

  Mark Twain (2007). “The Best Short Stories of Mark Twain”, p.203, Modern Library

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• O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Thanksgiving, Running, Thinking

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.228, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I'll always have the memories of guys I lost in Vietnam. And I've lost friends since the war, but I'll always have the memories. The riches are great, but riches aren't everything, because when you go you can only take your memories and your word and your honor to the grave with you.

  Michael E. Thornton

  Memories, War, Guy

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• Come to earth to taste our sadness, he whose glories knew no end;
  by his life he brings us gladness, our Redeemer, Shepherd, Friend.
  Leaving riches without number, born within a cattle stall;
  this the everlasting wonder, Christ was born the Lord of all.

  Charles Wesley

  Christmas, Meaningful, Sadness

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• If only mortals would learn how great it is to possess divine grace, how beautiful, how noble, how precious. How many riches it hides within itself, how many joys and delights! No one would complain about his cross or about troubles that may happen to him, if he would come to know the scales on which they are weighed when they are distributed to men.

  Rose of Lima

  Beautiful, Men, Joy

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• Would that men might come at last to see that it is quite impossible to reach the thicket of the riches and wisdom of God except by first entering the thicket of much suffering, in such a way that the soul finds there its consolation and desire. The soul that longs for divine wisdom chooses first, and in truth, to enter the thicket of the cross.

  John of the Cross

  Men, Divine Wisdom, Soul

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• That which can be lost cannot be deemed riches.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Wealth, Rich, Lost

  Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.83, eKitap Projesi

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• The hostility perpetually exercised between one man and another, is caused by the desire of many for that which only few can possess. Every man would be rich, powerful, and famous; yet fame, power, and riches, are only the names of relative conditions, which imply the obscurity, dependence, and poverty of greater numbers.

  Samuel Johnson

  Powerful, Men, Numbers

  Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.125

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• There is a science of getting rich, and it is an exact science, like algebra or arithmetic. There are certain laws which govern the process of acquiring riches, and once these laws are learned and obeyed by anyone, that person will get rich with mathematical certainty.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Law, Arithmetic, Process

  Wallace D. Wattles, Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Louis M. Grafe, N. H. Moos, John McDonald “Get Rich In Spite of Yourself Collection - An "If You Can Count to Four..." Reference”, Lulu.com

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• Wishing will not bring riches. But desiring riches with a state of mind that becomes an obsession, then planning definite ways and means to acquire riches, and backing those plans with persistence which does not recognize failure, will bring riches.

  Napoleon Hill

  Mean, Persistence, Mind

  Napoleon Hill (2007). “Your Magic Power to be Rich!”, p.27, Penguin

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• When we are generous in welcoming people and sharing something with them-some food, a place in our homes, our time-not only do we no longer remain poor: we are enriched. I am well aware that when someone needing food knocks at your door, you always find a way of sharing food; as the proverb says, one can always 'add more water to the beans'! Is it possible to add more water to the beans?...Always?...And you do so with love, demonstrating that true riches consist not in materials things, but in the heart!

  Pope Francis

  Home, Heart, Doors

  Pope Francis (2017). “The Works of Mercy”, p.53, Orbis Books

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• The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires others who attain them, while undervaluing the truly precious thing in life.

  Sigmund Freud

  Life, Men, Atheism

  Sigmund Freud (1930). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, p.1, Courier Dover Publications

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• The prospect of penury in age is so gloomy and terrifying that every man who looks before him must resolve to avoid it; and it must be avoided generally by the science of sparing. For, though in every age there are some who, by bold adventures, or by favorable accidents, rise suddenly to riches, yet it is dangerous to indulge hopes of such rare events; and the bulk of mankind must owe their affluence to small and gradual profits, below which their expense must be resolutely reduced.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Adventure, Men, Rare Events

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• You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.

  Brian Tracy

  Motivational, Powerful, Frustration

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Apr 16, 2014

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• What is Fortune, what is Fame?
  Futile gold and phantom name-
  Riches buried in a cave,
  Glory written on a grave.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Names, Gold, Caves

  Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The works of Henry Van Dyke”

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• As riches increase and accumulate in few hands, as luxury prevails in society, virtue will be in a greater degree considered as only a graceful appendage of wealth, and the tendency of things will be to depart from the republican standard. This is the real disposition of human nature; it is what neither the honorable member nor myself can correct. It is a common misfortunate that awaits our State constitution, as well as all others.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Real, Hands, Luxury

  Alexander Hamilton, John Church Hamilton (1850). “The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Miscellanies, 1774-1789: A full vindication; The farmer refuted; Quebec bill; Resolutions in Congress; Letters from Phocion; New-York Legislature, etc”, p.443

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• He is the wise man who has by perfect living gained the instinct of rightness by which he guides himself, whether in thought or action, who has found that centre of balance which is always over his point of contact with circumstances. He is the man whom Nature pours the riches of all her instincts.

  Nilakanta Sri Ram

  Wise, Spiritual, Men

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• Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men but from doing something worthwhile.

  Wilfred Grenfell

  Inspirational, Happiness, Real

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• If I might be the means of saving one soul I should prefer it to all the riches and honor in the world

  Asahel Nettleton

  Mean, Soul, Honor

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• Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none

  David Brainerd

  Greatness, Sensual, Flow

  David Brainerd (1822). “Memoirs of the Rev. David Brainerd: Missionary to the Indians on the Borders of New-York, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania: Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary”, p.122

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• The richest person in the world - in fact. All the riches in the world - couldn't provide you with anything like the endless, incredible loot available at your local library. You can measure the awareness, the breadth and the wisdom of a civilization, a nation, a people by the priority given to preserving these repositories of all that we are, all that we were, or will be.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Civilization, People, Priorities

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• Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.

  A. A. Gill

  Sports, Country, Kids

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• Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Wisdom, Honesty, Integrity

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• God in his omnipotence could not give more, in His wisdom He knew not how to give more, in His riches He had not more to give, than the Eucharist.

  Saint Augustine

  Omnipotence, Giving, Eucharist

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