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• Justice waits upon the great, Interest holds the scale, and Riches turns the balance.

  Delarivier Manley

  Justice, Waiting, Balance

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• Our acts of kindness we reserve for our friends, our bounties for our dependants, our riches for our children and relations, our praises for those who appear worthy of them, our time we give all to the world; we expose it, I may say, a prey to all mankind.

  Jean Baptiste Massillon

  Time, Children, Kindness

  Jean-Baptiste Massillon (1889*). “Sermons”

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• Poverty, the existence of the poor, was the first cause of riches.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Firsts, Causes, Poverty

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• When riches begin to come they come so quickly, in such great abundance, that one wonders where they have been hiding during all those lean years.

  Napoleon Hill

  Motivational, Years, Wonder

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.21, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• Agriculture is the soul and chief support of empires; industry produces riches and the happiness of the people; exportation represents the superabundance, and good use of both.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Agriculture, People, Support

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• Riches ... don't consist in having things, but in not having to do something you don't want to do. ... Riches is being able to thumb your nose.

  Josephine Tey

  Noses, Thumbs, Want

  JOSEPHINE TEY (1949). “BRAT FARRAR”

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• Talents give a man a superiority far more agreeable than that which proceeds from riches, birth, or employments, which are all external. Talents constitute our very essence.

  Charles Rollin

  Men, Essence, Giving

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• Riches may not bring happiness, but neither does poverty.

  Sophie Irene Loeb

  Doe, May, Poverty

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• It is rare to see a rich man religious; for religion preaches restraint, and riches prompt to unlicensed freedom.

  Owen Feltham

  Religious, Men, Religion

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• There is no substitute for the riches gained on a lifetime basis by the young American who studies or works abroad.

  Letitia Baldrige

  Study, Lifetime, Substitutes

  Letitia Baldrige (1968). “Of Diamonds and Diplomats”, New York : Ballantine Books

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• No riches from his scanty store / My lover could impart; / He gave a boon I valued more - / He gave me all his heart!

  Helen Maria Williams

  Heart, Lovers, Stores

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• I demand riches in definite terms; I have a definite plan for acquiring riches;I am engaged in carrying out my plan, and I am giving an equivalent,in useful service, of the value of those riches I demand.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Giving, Demand, Term

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• What are riches - grandeur - health itself, to the luxury of a pure conscience, the health of the soul; - and what the sufferings of poverty, disappointment, despair - to the anguish of an afflicted one!

  Ann Radcliffe

  Disappointment, Integrity, Luxury

  Ann Radcliffe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ann Radcliffe (Illustrated)”, p.1145, Delphi Classics

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• The riches of heaven, the honor which cometh from God only, and the pleasures at His right hand, the absence of all evil, the presence and enjoyment of all good, and this good enduring to eternity, never more to be taken from us, never more to be in any, the least degree, diminished, but forever increasing, these are the wreaths which form the contexture of that crown held forth to our hopes.

  Thomas Hartwell Horne

  Hope, Taken, Hands

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• O blessed poverty, who bestows eternal riches on those who love and embrace her!

  Clare of Assisi

  Blessed, Poverty, Embrace

  Saint Clare (of Assisi), Regis J. Armstrong (2006). “The Lady: Clare of Assisi : Early Documents”, p.22, New City Press

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• Though the worship of riches is an old religion, there has never been a danger that it might become the sole religion. And yet that is what is surely going to happen in the world.

  J. E. Buckrose

  World, Might, Worship

  Annie Edith Foster Jameson, J. E. Buckrose (1923). “What I Have Gathered”

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• Man is in pursuit of two goals: he is looking for happinesse and, being by essence empty ("étant vide par essence", Fr.), he is trying to fill (or take up, - "remplir", Fr.) his life; the latter reason play a more considerable role than we ordinarily think. What we take for vainglory, ambition, love of power and riches (or wealth), is often, indeed, a need to mask this emptiness, a need to let one's hair down (or to live it up), to put oneself on a false scent or trail. (de se donner le change", Fr.)

  African Spir

  Ambition, Men, Thinking

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 56), 1937.

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• there was nothing in the whole world so dreadful as the power of riches wrongly used.

  Gene Stratton-Porter

  World, Wealth, Used

  Gene Stratton-Porter (2009). “The White Flag”, p.460, Wildside Press LLC

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• We have such an embarrassment of riches when it comes to choice. Do you want to hike in the Alps? There are 300 pairs of shoes you can order within the next 10 minutes. You have your choice of everything.

  Nick Offerman

  Order, Shoes, Choices

  "Ron Swanson of Parks & Rec vs. Nick Offerman: The Food Interview". Squid Ink interview, www.laweekly.com. November 22, 2011.

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• Riches are first to be sought for; after wealth, virtue.

  Horace

  Firsts, Wealth, Virtue

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• Riches with their wicked inducements increase; nevertheless, avarice is never satisfied.

  Horace

  Wicked, Increase, Satisfied

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• Every individual nature has its own beauty. One is struck in every company, at every fireside, with the riches of nature, when he hears so many new tones, all musical, sees in each person original manners, which have a proper and peculiar charm, and reads new expressions of face. He perceives that nature has laid for each the foundations of a divine building, if the soul will build thereon.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Expression, Soul, Individuality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2447, Delphi Classics

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• Eyes are bold as lions,--roving, running, leaping, here and there, far and near. They speak all languages. They wait for no introduction; they are no Englishmen; ask no leave of age or rank; they respect neither property nor riches, neither learning nor power, nor virtue, nor sex, but intrude, and come again, and go through and through you in a moment of time. What inundation of life and thought is discharged from one soul into another through them!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Sex, Eye

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2329, Delphi Classics

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• Men pursue riches under the idea that their possession will set them at ease, and above the world. But the law of association often makes those who begin by loving gold as a servant finish by becoming themselves its slaves; and independence without wealth is at least as common as wealth without independence.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Law, Ideas

  Charles Caleb Colton (1821). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.171

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• Marriage is the strictest tie of perpetual friendship, and there can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity; and he must expect to be wretched, who pays to beauty, riches, or politeness that regard which only virtue and piety can claim.

  Samuel Johnson

  Marriage, Integrity, Ties

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1836). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: with an essay on his life and genius”, p.41

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