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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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• 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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• Wealth cannot purchase any great private solace or convenience. Riches are only the means of sociality.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mean, Wealth, Convenience

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2109, Delphi Classics

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• Men do not avail themselves of the riches of God's grace. They love to nurse their cares, and seem as uneasy without some fret as an old friar would be without his hair girdle. They are commanded to cast their cares upon the Lord, but even when they attempt it, they do not fail to catch them up again, and think it meritorious to walk burdened.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Thinking, Hair

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.81

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• Hope is the best part of our riches. What sufficeth it that we have the wealth of the Indies in our pockets, if we have not the hope of heaven in our souls?

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Hope, Heaven, Soul

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.139

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• It is not earthly riches which make us or our sons happy; for they must either be lost by us in our lifetime, or be possessed when we are dead, by whom we know not, or perhaps by whom we would not.

  Saint Augustine

  Son, Lifetime, Lost

  Saint Augustine of Hippo, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The City of God”, p.231, Catholic Way Publishing

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• Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was unreasonably committed to the ground, is reasonably resumed from it; let monuments and rich fabricks, not riches, adorn men's ashes.

  Thomas Browne

  Men, Gold, Ashes

  Sir Thomas Browne (1835). “Sir Thomas Browne's Works, Including His Life and Correspondence: Pseudodoxia epidemica, books 4-7. The garden of Cyrus. Hydriotaphia. Brampton urns”, p.475

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• Let parents who hate their offspring rear them to hate labor, and to inherit riches; and before long they will be stung by every vice, racked by its poison, and damned by its penalty.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Hate, Long, Parent

  Henry Ward Beecher (1856). “Lectures to young men: on various important subjects”, p.43

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• Content and Riches seldom meet together, Riches take thou, contentment I had rather.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Contentment, Together, Contention

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.108, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Then know, that I have little wealth to lose. A man I am, crossed with adversity; My riches are these poor habiliments, Of which if you should here disfurnish me, You take the sum and substance that I have.

  William Shakespeare

  Adversity, Men, Substance

  William Shakespeare, William Harness, William Gilmore Simms (1842). “The Complete Works of William Shakspeare”, p.57

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• No, I have no desire for riches. Honest poverty and a conscience, torpid through virtuous inaction, are more to me than corner lots and praise.

  Mark Twain

  Desire, Poverty, Honest

  Mark Twain (1994). “Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches”, p.157, 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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• And fame, for a painter means sales, gains, fortune, riches. And today, as you know, I am celebrated. I am rich.

  Pablo Picasso

  Mean, Today, Gains

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