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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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• Virginity, like all monstrosities, possesses special riches and its own absorbing grandeur. Among the chaste, life forces are economized and thus gain in resistance and durability.

  Honore de Balzac

  Special, Gains, Resistance

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• Thirst of power and of riches now bear sway,
  The passion and infirmity of age.

  James Anthony Froude

  Passion, Age, Bears

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• To diminish envy, let us consider not what others possess, but what they enjoy; mere riches may be the gift of lucky accident or blind chance, but happiness must be the result of prudent preference and rational design; the highest happiness then can have no other foundation than the deepest wisdom; and the happiest fool is only as happy as he knows how to be.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Envy, Design, May

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.211

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• For the multitude of worldly friends profiteth not, nor may strong helpers anything avail, nor wise counselors give profitable counsel, nor the cunning of doctors give consolation, nor riches deliver in time of need, nor a secret place to defend, if Thou, Lord, do not assist, help, comfort, counsel, inform, and defend.

  Thomas a Kempis

  God, Wise, Strong

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• The riches of scholarship, the benignities of literature, defy fortune and outlive calamity. They are beyond the reach of thief or moth or rust. As they cannot be inherited, so they cannot, be alienated.

  James Russell Lowell

  Thieves, Rust, Literature

  James Russell Lowell (1904). “The Complete Writings of James Russell Lowell: Literary and political addresses”

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• The care of our national commerce redounds more to the riches and prosperity of the public than any other act of government.

  Joseph Addison

  Government, Care, Prosperity

  Joseph Addison (1856). “The works of Joseph Addison: including the whole contents of B. Hurd's edition, with letters and other pieces not found in any previous collection, and Macaulay's essay on his life and works”, p.202

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• Contentment produces, in some measure, all those effects which the alchemist usually ascribes to what he calls the philosopher's stone; and if it does not bring riches, it does the same thing by banishing the desire for them.

  Joseph Addison

  Alchemist, Desire, Contentment

  Joseph Addison (1857). “Essays, Moral and Humorous. Also Essays on Imagination and Taste”, p.162

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• No people ever yet benefited by riches if their prosperity corrupted their virtue.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  People, Prosperity, Virtue

  Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

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• Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Learning, Men, Age

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• Riches too increase, and the maddening craving for gold,
  So that men ever seek for more, that they may have the most.

  Ovid

  Men, Gold, May

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• Gentility is nothing but Ancient Riches.

  George Herbert

  Ancient, Gentility

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.323

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• All flesh is grass. and all its glory fades
  Like the fair flower dishevell'd in the wind;
  Riches have wings, and grandeur is a dream;
  The man we celebrate must find a tomb,
  And we that worship him, ignoble graves.

  William Cowper

  Death, Dream, Flower

  William Cowper (1856). “The task, Table talk, and other poems: With critical observations of various authors on his genius and character, and notes, critical and illustrative”, p.186

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• There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man--the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.

  Henry Fielding

  Heart, Men, Two

  Henry Fielding (1783). “The Beauties of Fielding. Carefully Selected ... To which is Added Some Account of His Life”, p.2

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• Of lunacy,
  Innumerous were the causes; humbled pride,
  Ambition disappointed, riches lost,
  And bodily disease, and sorrow, oft
  By man inflicted on his brother man;
  Sorrow, that, made the reason drunk, and yet
  Left much untasted. So the cup was fill'd.

  Robert Pollok

  Brother, Ambition, Pride

  Robert Pollok, James Robert Boyd (1860). “Pollok's Course of Time”, p.304

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• Riches, both material and spiritual, can choke you if you do not use them fairly. For not even God can put anything in a heart that is already full.

  Mother Teresa

  Spiritual, Heart, Generosity

  Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.95, New World Library

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• The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
  [Lat., Divitarum et formae gloria fluxa atque fragilis; virtus clara aeternaque habetur.]

  Sallust

  Virtue, Glory, Frail

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• Who confers reputation? who gives respect and veneration to persons, to books, to great men? Who but Opinion? How utterly insufficient are all the riches of the world without her approbation!

  Blaise Pascal

  Book, Men, Giving

  Blaise Pascal (1849). “Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”, p.96

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• When Anaxagoras was told of the death of his son, he only said, "I knew he was mortal." So we in all casualties of life should say "I knew my riches were uncertain, that my friend was but a man." Such considerations would soon pacify us, because all our troubles proceed from their being unexpected.

  Plutarch

  Son, Men, Unexpected

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• Thou art an heyre to fayre lying, that is nothing, if thou be disinherited of learning, for better were it to thee to inherite righteousnesse then riches, and far more seemly were if for thee to haue thy Studie full of bookes, then thy pursse full of mony.

  John Lyly

  Art, Lying, Learning

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• And now that I don't want to own anything any more and am free, now I suddenly own everything, now my inner riches are immeasurable.

  Etty Hillesum

  Want

  Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.25, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• I love medieval cities; they do not clamor for attention; they possess their souls - their riches - in quiet; formal, courteous, they reveal themselves slowly, stone by stone, garden by garden; hidden treasures wait calmly to be loved and yield to introspective wandering.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Travel, Garden, Cities

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• Rome's riches are in too immediate juxtaposition. Under the lid of awful August heat, one moves dizzily from church to palace to fountain to ruin, a single fly at a banquet, not knowing where to light.

  Shana Alexander

  Moving, Light, Rome

  Shana Alexander (1970). “The feminine eye”, McCall Pub. Co

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• It is impossible for human tongue to exaggerate the riches which a vision from God brings to the soul: it even bestows health and refreshment on the body.

  Teresa of Avila

  God, Soul, Vision

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1946). “General introduction. Life. Spiritual relations”

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• Fortunes are made, if I the facts may state--
  Though poor myself, I know the fortunate:
  First, there's a knowledge of the way from whence
  Good fortune comes--and this is sterling sense:
  Then perseverance, never to decline
  The chase of riches till the prey is thine;
  And firmness never to be drawn away
  By any passion from that noble prey--
  By love, ambition, study, travel, fame,
  Or the vain hope that lives upon a name.

  George Crabbe

  Perseverance, Ambition, Passion

  George Crabbe (1839). “The Poetical Works of Crabbe, Heber, and Pollok: Complete in One Volume”, p.364

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