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• Riches are gotten with pain, kept with care, and lost with grief. The cares of riches lie heavier upon a good man than the inconveniences of an honest poverty.

  Roger L'Estrange

  Pain, Lying, Grief

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• Lack of desire is the greatest riches.

  Seneca the Younger

  Desire, Wealth

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• These individulas have riches just as we say that we 'have a fever,' when really the fever has us.

  Seneca the Younger

  Motivational, Money, Fever

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• I do not believe we can truly enter into our own inner pain and wounds and open our hearts to others unless we have had an experience of God, unless we have been touched by God. We must be touched by the Father in order to experience, as the prodigal son did, that no matter how wounded we may be, we are loved. And not only are we loved, but we too are called to heal and to liberate. This healing power in us will not come from our capacities and our riches, but in and through our poverty. We are called to discover that God can bring peace, compassion and love through our wounds.

  Jean Vanier

  Pain, Father, Believe

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• The absolute desire of 'having more' encourages the selfishness that destroys communal bonds among the children of God. It does so because the idolatry of riches prevents the majority from sharing the goods that the Creator has made for all, and in the all-possessing minority it produces an exaggerated pleasure in these goods.

  Oscar Romero

  Children, Desire, Selfishness

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• Wealth and riches, that is, an estate above what sufficeth our real occasions and necessities, is in no other sense a 'blessing' than as it is an opportunity put into our hands, by the providence of God, of doing more good.

  John Tillotson

  Real, Blessing, Opportunity

  John Tillotson (1717). “The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson containing two hundred sermons and discourses, on several occasions ...”, p.673

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• You can't anticipate in the room the riches of what you encounter when you're location hunting for a movie.

  Woody Allen

  Hunting, Encounters, Rooms

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• It was with the Industrial Revolution, as society plunged ever more eagerly into the conquest of material riches and bent all its energies to the accumulation of goods, that material poverty became a major problem. Obviously, this meant abandonment or downgrading of spiritual values, virtue, etc. To share or not to share in the increase of the collective wealth-this was the Number One question. It was the desire to acquire wealth that prompted the poor to start fighting.

  Jacques Ellul

  Spiritual, Fighting, Numbers

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• Many rich and powerful men would pay dearly to see the Lord or His Most Pure Mother, but God does not appear in riches, but in the humble heart... Every one of the poorest men can be humbles and come to know God. It need neither money nor reputation to come to know God, but only humility.

  Silouan the Athonite

  Inspirational, Christian, Mother

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• The spirit of commerce is frugality, economy, moderation, labor, ponderance, tranquillity, order, and rule. So long as this spirit subsides, the riches it produces have no bad effect. The mischief is when excessive wealth destroys the spirit of commerce, then it is that the conveniences of inequality... are felt.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Order, Long, Spirit

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• It is certain that despotism ruins individuals by preventing them from producing wealth much more than by depriving them of what they have already produced; it dries up the source of riches, while it usually respects acquired property. Freedom, on the contrary, produces far more goods than it destroys; and the nations which are favored by free institutions invariably find that their resources increase even more rapidly than their taxes.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Ruins, Wealth, Individual

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• The dance is the most universal of the arts, since, as Goethe justly said, it could destroy all the fine arts. It is an expression of all the emotions of the spirit, from the lowest to the highest. It accompanies and stimulates all the processes of life, from hunting and farming to war and fertility, from love to death. It enables, in turn other arts to come into being: music, song, drama. Despite all their riches, the dance is no formless complex, but a simple unity.

  Gerard van der Leeuw

  Song, Art, Drama

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• Money can't buy happiness, but it does quiet the nerves.

  Joe Louis

  Doe, Nerves, Quiet

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• Sound health is the greatest of gifts; contentedness, the greatest of riches; trust, the greatest of qualities.

  Gautama Buddha

  Quality, Sound, Contentedness

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• Man's greatest joy is to slay his enemy, plunder his riches, ride his steeds, see the tears of his loved ones and embrace his women

  Genghis Khan

  Men, Joy, Enemy

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• Become a beacon of enhancement, and then, when the night is gray, all of the boats will move towards you, bringing their bountiful riches.

  James Altucher

  Moving, Night, Enhancement

  "10 Reasons You Have to Quit Your Job in 2014" by James Altucher, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 8, 2014.

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• For years to come the debris of a convulsed world will beset our steps. It will require a purpose stronger than any man and worthy of all men to calm and inspirit us. A sane society whose riches are happy children, men and women, beautiful with peace and creative activity, is not going to be ordained for us. We must make it ourselves.

  Helen Keller

  Beautiful, Children, Men

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• Bless them that persecute you.' If our enemy cannot put up with us any longer and takes to cursing us, our immediate reaction must be to lift up our hands and bless him. Our enemies are the blessed of the Lord. Their curse can do us no harm. May their poverty be enriched with all the riches of God, with the blessing of Him whom they seek to oppose in vain. We are ready to endure their curses so long as they redound to their blessing.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Blessed, Blessing, Hands

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.97, SCM Press

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• You must lay aside your greed; have no unworthy motive in your desire to become rich and powerful. It is legitimate and right to desire riches, if you want them for the sake of your soul, but not if you desire them for the lists of the flesh.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Powerful, Greed, Soul

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• To find riches is a beggar’s dream, but to find love is the dream of kings.

  Sidney Sheldon

  Dream, Kings, Love Is

  Sidney Sheldon (1992). “Three complete novels”, Wings

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• You know, we'll hardly get our feet out of time [and] into eternity that we'll bow our heads in shame and humiliation. We'll gaze on eternity and say, 'My God! Look at all the riches there were in Jesus Christ, and I've come to the Judgment Seat almost a pauper!

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Jesus, Feet, Looks

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• Governments, existing primarily to protect and enhance capitalism, maintain their power through the use of technologies that control the populace - by bread or circuses, by war or schooling, by armies and police, all of which are enabled and empowered by technology. That is what we might call the stick part of capitalism, while the riches-for-the-few is the carrot.

  Kirkpatrick Sale

  War, Army, Technology

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• What is the good news to the poor? Christ took your poverty at the cross and gave you the riches of Abraham. The chains of poverty have been broken at the cross.

  John Hagee

  Broken, Poverty, News

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• Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches.

  Thomas Paine

  Mean, Oppression, Consequence

  Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson (1988). “Paine and Jefferson on Liberty”, p.34, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• The two roads that lead to poverty and riches travel in opposite directions. If you want riches, you must refuse to accept any circumstance that leads to poverty. (The word riches is here used in its broadest sense, meaning financial, spiritual, mental, and material estates).

  Napoleon Hill

  Spiritual, Opposites, Two

  Napoleon Hill, Wallace D. Wattles (2012). “Get Rich Collection”, p.164, Penguin

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