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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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• O painter, take care lest the greed for gain prove a stronger incentive than renown in art, for to gain this renown is a far greater thing than is the renown of riches.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Greed, Stronger

  Leonardo (da Vinci) (1957). “Notebooks”

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• What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and fire. Is this too little?

  Alexander Pope

  Fire, Clothes, Giving

  Alexander Pope (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe”, p.238

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• If at great things thou would'st arrive, Get riches first, get wealth, and treasure heap, Not difficult, if thou hearken to me; Riches are mine, fortune is in my hand, They whom I favor thrive in wealth amain, While virtue, valor, wisdom, sit in want.

  John Milton

  Ambition, Hands, Treasure

  John Milton (1785). “Paradise Regain'd: A Poem, in Four Books. To which is Added Samson Agonistes: and Poems Upon Several Occasions. The Author John Milton. A New Edition. With Notes of Various Authors, by Thomas Newton, ...”, p.92

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• Infinite riches in a little room.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Littles, Rooms, Wealth

  'The Jew of Malta' (c.1592) act 1, sc. 1

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• Nature seems to have poured forth her riches so without calculation, merely to mark the fullness of her joy.

  Margaret Fuller

  Nature, Joy, Fullness

  Margaret Fuller (1860). “Woman in the nineteenth century: and kindred papers relating to the sphere, condition and duties of woman”, p.369

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• This is our true wealth: the riches we take with us, the joy we carry inside, the support we learn to give ourselves, and the self-loving that flows as a natural by-product of that support.

  Peter McWilliams

  Self, Giving, Support

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Do It!: Let's Get Off Our Buts”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• Art was not created as a way to riches. Strive to become a true artist; all else will take care of itself.

  Robert Schumann

  Music, Art, Care

  Robert Schumann (1983). “On Music and Musicians”, p.37, Univ of California Press

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• Introverts are offered keys to private gardens full of riches. To possess such a key is to tumble like Alice down her rabbit hole. She didn't choose to go to Wonderland - but she made of it an adventure that was fresh and fantastic and very much her own.

  Susan Cain

  Adventure, Garden, Keys

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.266, Broadway Books

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• He whose son is obedient to him, whose wife's conduct is in accordance with his wishes, and who is content with his riches, has his heaven here on earth.

  Chanakya

  Son, Wife, Heaven

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• Christ's riches are unsearchable, and this doctrine of the gospel is the field this treasure is hidden in.

  Thomas Goodwin

  Doctrine, Treasure, Fields

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• One always has riches when one has a book to read.

  Jacqueline Winspear

  Book

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• Brother Cannon remarked that people wondered how many wives and children I had. He may inform them that I shall have wives and children by the million, and glory, and riches, and power, and dominion, and kingdom after kingdom, and reign triumphantly

  Brigham Young

  Brother, Children, Wife

  Brigham Young (1861). “Journal of Discourses”, p.178

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• Do not fret under such assistance as is needful; therein lies one great grace of poverty. It were overambitious to aim at being poor without suffering any inconvenience, in other words, to have the credit of poverty and the convenience of riches.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Lying, Grace, Suffering

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “Introduction to the Devout Life”, p.211, Catholic Way Publishing

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• From the Sun I learned this: when he goes down, overrich; he pours gold into the sea out of inexhaustible riches, so that even the poorest fisherman still rows with golden oars. For this I once saw and I did not tire of my tears as I watched it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Compassion, Sea, Tears

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.190, Penguin

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• The human soul is God's treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Soul, Coins, Treasury

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Oh God, God, please come to me, please illumine me, please act in me and through me. I don't know what's right and what's wrong. I can't tell anymore. I could be doing what I feel is right and perhaps I'm deceiving myself. Perhaps it's all my ego and my vanity. Please show me what's right or don't even show me. Please just do it, whether it brings me happiness or unhappiness, riches or poverty, sorrow or joy. Please act in and through me. I love only you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Vanity, Joy

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• The American Colossus was fiercely intent on appropriating and exploiting the riches of all continents - grasping with both hands, reaping where he had not sown, wasting what he thought would last forever. New railroads were opening new territory. The exploiters were pushing farther and farther into the wilderness. The man who could get his hands on the biggest slice of natural resources was the best citizen. Wealth and virtue were supposed to trot in double harness.

  Gifford Pinchot

  Men, Hands, Land

  Gifford Pinchot (1998). “Breaking New Ground”, p.23, Island Press

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• The idea, shared by many, that life is a vale of tears, is just as false as the idea shared by the great majority, the idea to which youth and health and riches incline you, that life is a place of entertainment.
  Life is a place of service, and in that service one has to suffer a great deal that is hard to bear, but more often to experience a great deal of joy.
  But that joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Real, Ideas, People

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• Yet living and dying, honour and dishonour, pain and pleasure, riches and poverty, and so forth are equally the lot of good men and bad. Things like these neither elevate nor degrade; and therefore they are no more good than they are evil.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Pain, Men, Evil

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius. Book II, 11,

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• If you were to spend a month feeding on the precious promises of God, you would not be going about with your heads hanging down like bulrushes, complaining how poor you are; but you would lift up your heads with confidence, and proclaim the riches of His grace because you could not help it.

  Dwight L. Moody

  God, Grace, Promise

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" byJosiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 261), 1895.

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• We need not envy certain people their great wealth; they acquired it at a heavy cost, which would not suit us; they staked their rest, their health, their honour and their conscience to acquire it, the price is too high, and there is nothing to be gained by such a bargain.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Class, Envy

  "Of Worldly Goods". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• From the preponderance of talent, we may always infer the soundness and vigour of the commonwealth; but from the preponderance of riches, its dotage and degeneration.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  May, Talent, Commonwealth

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.18

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• The great have private feelings of their own, to which the interests of humanity and justice must curtsy. Their interests are so far from being the same as those of the community, that they are in direct and necessary opposition to them; their power is at the expense of OUR weakness; their riches of OUR poverty; their pride of OUR degradation; their splendour of OUR wretchedness; their tyranny of OUR servitude.

  William Hazlitt

  Pride, Justice, Community

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.411, Delphi Classics

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• Deep in the sea are riches beyond compare, But if you seek safety, it is on the shore.

  Bill Vaughan

  Sea, Safety, Compare

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