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• The genius of Coleridge is like a sunken treasure ship, and Coleridge a diver too timid and lazy to bring its riches to the surface.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Lazy, Genius, Treasure

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• In A Midnight Carol Patricia Davis illuminates the dark and brilliant humanity of Charles Dickens -- the man who lived a rags-to-riches life more remarkable than any of his stories.

  Richard Lederer

  Dark, Men, Humanity

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• Few and precious are the words which the lips of Wisdom utter: To what shall their rarity be likened? What prices shall count their worth? Perfect, and much to be desired, and giving joy with riches, No lovely thing on earth can picture their fair beauty. They be chance pearls, flung among the rocks by the sullen waters of Oblivion.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Wisdom, Rocks, Giving

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1838). “Proverbial Philosophy: A Book of Thoughts and Arguments, Originally Treated”, p.9

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• Wisdom adorneth riches and casteth a shadow over poverty.

  Socrates

  Wisdom, Shadow, Poverty

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• Only economists mistake physical opulence for riches.

  Aldo Leopold

  Mistake, Opulence, Economist

  Aldo Leopold (1972). “Round River”, p.29, Oxford University Press

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• A rich woman seems to have all her banknotes about her, guarding her virtue, like a cuirass, in the lining of her corset.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Guarding, Wealth, Virtue

  Gustave Flaubert (2010). “Madame Bovary: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.198, Penguin

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• Grant that I may become beautiful in my soul within, and that all my external possessions may be in harmony with my inner self. May I consider the wise to be rich, and may I have such riches as only a person of self-restraint can bear or endure.

  Plato

  Beautiful, Wise, Self

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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.

  William Blake

  Wife, Joy, Mental Health

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.101, Routledge

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• Riches, the incentives to evil, are dug out of the earth.

  Ovid

  Evil, Earth, Incentives

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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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• Riches are oftener an impediment than a stimulus to action; and in many cases they are quite as much a misfortune as a blessing.

  Samuel Smiles

  Blessing, Action, Wealth

  Samuel Smiles (1866). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Charakter, Conduct and Perseverance”, p.311

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• By wisdom wealth is won; but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.

  Bayard Taylor

  Wisdom, Wealth

  Bayard Taylor (1866). “The Poems”, p.129

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• Those that say they despise riches are saints or liars.

  Austin O'Malley

  Liars, Saint, Wealth

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• If thou covetest riches, ask not but for contentment, which is an immense treasure.

  Saadi

  Contentment, Treasure, Asks

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• Being rich and thin isn't everything.

  Garrison Keillor

  Rich, Being Rich

  Garrison Keillor (1990). “We Are Still Married: Stories and Letters”, p.193, Penguin

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• Few have greater riches than the joy That comes to us in visions, In dreams which nobody can take away.

  Euripides

  Dream, Joy, Vision

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Euripides”

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• Enthusiastic partisans of the idea of progress are in danger of failing to recognize the immense riches accumulated by the human race. By underrating the achievements of the past, they devalue all those which still remain to be accomplished.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Past, Race, Ideas

  "Tristes Tropiques". Book by Claude Lévi-Strauss, translated by John and Doreen Weightman. Chapter 38: "A Little Glass of Rum," pp. 393, 1955.

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• Spiritual knowledge is like a house built in the midst of secular and pagan knowledge, in which there is laid up, like a solid and well-secured chest, the knowledge of the inspired Scriptures and the inestimable riches they contain. Those who enter into the house will never at all be able to see those treasures unless this chest is opened for them. But it does not belong to human wisdom (cf. I Cor. 2:13) ever to be able to open it, so that the riches of the Spirit deposited in it remain unknown to all who are worldly.

  Symeon the New Theologian

  Christian, Spiritual, Cfs

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• Why should the search for happiness be only or essentially material and mental? Aren't there untold riches too in the moral, the sentimental and the spiritual realms?

  Robert Muller

  Happiness, Spiritual, Sentimental

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• The more riches you have, the more you can share. So I like to share everything that I have that's of value.

  Leonard Orr

  Share, Values

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• Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason, a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches; for never is there any lack of a little.

  Lucretius

  Men, Order, Mind

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• Among all the modernized aspects of the most luxurious of industries, the model, a vestige of voluptuous barbarianism, is like some plunder-laden prey. She is the object of unbridled regard, a living bait, the passive realization of an ideal. No other female occupation contains such potent impulses to moral disintegration as this one, applying as it does the outward signs of riches to a poor and beautiful girl.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Beautiful, Girl, Fashion

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• Rank and riches are chains of gold, but still chains.

  Giovanni Ruffini

  Class, Gold, Chains

  Giovanni Ruffini (1858). “Doctor Antonio. A tale. By the author of Lorenzo Benoni [i.e. Giovanni Domenico Ruffini].”, p.144

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• To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.

  Fanny Burney

  May, Wealth, Prosperity

  Fanny Burney (1850). “Evelina: or, The history of a young lady's introduction to the world”, p.130

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• If you come from Africa with your economic poverty and your cultural riches, and you meet someone like Peter Gabriel or a person from a big record company, and they tell you that what you are doing is marvelous, that makes you feel powerful.

  Youssou N'Dour

  Powerful, Gabriel, Records

  "A song and a prayer" by Mark Hudson, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2004.

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