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• Seek spiritual riches within. What you are is much greater than anyone or anything else you have ever yearned for.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Spiritual, Longing, Yearning

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• Wherefore a good name is better than riches.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Names

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• We are assailed by the temptation of the love of money. If you wish to acquire riches ? they are the bait of the fishers hook ? by greed, by trafficking, by violence, by ruse or by excessive manual work that deprives you of leisure for the service of God ? in a word by any other means ? if you have desired to pile up gold or silver, remember what the Gospel says, 'Fool! They will snatch your soul away during the night! Who will get your hoard' (cf. Lk. 12:20)? Again, 'He piles up money without knowing to whom it will go' (Ps. 39:6).

  Pachomius the Great

  Christian, Mean, Night

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• Let no man's place, or dignity, or riches, puff him up; and let no man's low condition or poverty abase him. For the chief points are faith towards God, hope towards Christ, the enjoyment of those good things for which we look, and love towards God and our neighbor.

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Christian, Men, And Love

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• Given that we desire long life, should we not take eternal life into account? If we long for a kingdom which, however enduring, has an end, and glory and joy which, great as they are, will fade, and wealth that will perish with this present life, and we labour for the sake of such things; ought we not to seek the kingdom, glory, joy and riches which, as well as being all-surpassing, are unfading and endless, and ought we not to endure a little constraint in order to inherit it?

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Order, Long

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• ...when we abandon visible riches... it is strange goods and not our own that we are leaving. And this is so even if we boast that we acquired them through our own efforts or that they were passed on to us as an inheritance. I say nothing is ours except what is in our hearts, what belongs to our souls, what cannot be taken away by anyone.

  John Cassian

  Christian, Taken, Heart

  John Cassian, Colm Luibhéid (1985). “Conferences”, p.91, Paulist Press

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• He who nurtures benevolence for all creatures within his heart overcomes all difficulties and will be the recipient of all types of riches at every step.

  Chanakya

  Heart, Religion, Steps

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• Abram, having failed in Genesis 13, comes through with flying colors in this battle of faith because he aligns himself with God, and he refuses to allow his heart to be compromised by the possibility of taking the riches that this world can offer.

  Ligon Duncan

  Heart, Color, Flying

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• When we have passed a certain age, the soul of the child that we were and the souls of the dead from whom we sprang come and shower upon us their riches and their spells, asking to be allowed to contribute to the new emotions which we feel and in which, erasing their former image, we recast them in an original creation.

  Marcel Proust

  Children, Soul, Age

  Marcel Proust (1982). “Remembrance of Things Past: The captive. The fugitive. Time regained”, Vintage

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• But Humanity, in its desire for comfort, had over-reached itself. It had exploited the riches of nature too far. Quietly and complacently, it was sinking into decadence, and progress had come to mean the progress of the Machine.

  E. M. Forster

  Mean, Humanity, Progress

  E. M. Forster (2015). “The Machine Stops”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies, and all the things that can be compared unto her.

  Solomon

  Men, Hands, Understanding

  "Proverbs". 3:13-15,

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• If we do not cling to riches, selfishness or greed - then I believe we are getting closer to God.

  Daniel Ortega

  Believe, Greed, Selfishness

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• This is an embarrassment of riches, and boy, am I happy to be embarrassed.

  Julia Louis-Dreyfus

  Boys, Embarrassment, Embarrassed

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• People often say that blindness sharpens hearing, but I don't think this is so. My ears were hearing no better, but I was making better use of them. Sight is a miraculous instrument offering us all the riches of physical life. But we get nothing in this world without paying for it, and in return for all the benefits that sight brings we are forced to give up others whose existence we don't even suspect. These were the gifts I received in such abundance.

  Jacques Lusseyran

  Giving Up, Thinking, Sight

  Jacques Lusseyran (2014). “And There Was Light: The Extraordinary Memoir of a Blind Hero of the French Resistance in World War II”, p.18, New World Library

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• For as the interposition of a rivulet, however small, will occasion the line of the phalanx to fluctuate, so any trifling disagreement will be the cause of seditions; but they will not so soon flow from anything else as from the disagreement between virtue and vice, and next to that between poverty and riches.

  Aristotle

  Vices, Lines, Flow

  Aristotle (2015). “Politics”, p.164, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• No other success can compensate for failure in the home. The poorest shack in which love prevails over a united family is of greater value to God and future humanity that any other riches. In such a home God can work miracles and will work miracles.

  David O. McKay

  Family, Work, Home

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• There is nothing wrong with being poor; but there is everything wrong with remaining poor after you have discovered your riches in Christ.

  Chris Oyakhilome

  Christ, Poor

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• As your awareness of the riches available to you in your everyday life grows, you are on the way to becoming the laughing Buddha. Life is joyous. Life is Light. Life is happy. You are awake at last.

  Susan Jeffers

  Happiness, Law Of Attraction, Light Life

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• Situated on an island which I think it will one day cover, it rises like Venice from the sea, and like that fairest of cities in the days of her glory, receives into its lap tribute of all the riches of the earth.

  Frances Trollope

  New York, Thinking, Islands

  Frances Trollope (2014). “Domestic Manners of the Americans”, p.225, Oxford University Press

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• Every person who will learn the right way, and who will then continue diligently to follow that right way, is absolutely certain in time to possess great riches and all attending blessings.

  Joseph Franklin Rutherford

  Blessing, Way, Certain

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• You have riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don't you use them in the search for love?

  Lech Walesa

  Faith, Use, Computer

  Quoted in Daily Telegraph (London), 14 Dec. 1988

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• America does not fight for land, glory or riches.

  Virginia Foxx

  Fighting, Land, America

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• The windfall of great riches can, if mismanaged, make things worse, not better, for the recipients.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  Ifs

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• Nin knew how much humans loved money, riches, and material things-though he never really could understand why. The more technologically advanced the human species got, the more isolated they seemed to become, at the same time. It was alarming, how humans could spend entire lifetimes engaged in all kinds of activities, without getting any closer to knowing who they really were, inside.

  Jess C Scott

  Money, Knowing, Kind

  Jess C. Scott (2011). “The Other Side of Life (Book #1, Cyberpunk Elven Trilogy)”, p.9, Jess C Scott

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• Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Giving, Contemptuous

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