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• Satiety comes of riches and contumaciousness of satiety.

  Solon

  Satiety

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• Therefore, if at great things thou wouldst arrive,
  Get riches first, get wealth.

  John Milton

  Firsts, Wealth, Get Rich

  John Milton (2007). “Complete Shorter Poems”, p.460, Pearson Education

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• Wouldst thou multiply thy riches? diminish them wisely; or wouldst thou make thy estate entire? divide it charitably. Seeds that are scattered increase; but, hoarded up, they perish.

  Francis Quarles

  Increase, Estates, Diminish

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.67

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• Nature does not conquer the world to God. It never has. It never will. In America, with its vast abounding wealth, its grand expanse of prairie, its reach of river, and its exuberant productiveness, there is danger that our riches will draw us away from God, and fasten us to earth; that they will make us not only rich, but mean; not only wealthy, but wicked. The grand corrective is the cross of Christ, seen in the sanctuary where the life and light of God are exhibited, and where the reverberation of the echoes from the great white throne are heard.

  Richard Salter Storrs

  Mean, Rivers, White

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 522), 1895.

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• Men who could willingly resign the luxuries and sensual pleasures of a large fortune cannot consent to live without the grandeur and the homage.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Luxury, Sensual

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Journey to the Hebrides. Tales of the imagination. Prayers and sermons. Index”, p.309

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• O, my God! withhold from me the wealth to which tears and sighs and curses cleave. Better none at all than wealth like that.

  Christian Scriver

  Tears, Wealth, Curse

  Christian Scriver (1857). “Gotthold's Emblems: or Invisible things understood by things that are made. Tr. by R. Menzies”, p.24

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• Men who have great riches and little culture rush into business, because they are weary of themselves.

  Horace Greeley

  Men, Culture, Littles

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• We see how much a man has, and therefore we envy him; did we see how little he enjoys, we should rather pity him.

  Jeremiah Seed

  Men, Envy, Littles

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• Riches, though they may reward virtues, yet they cannot cause them; he is much more noble who deserves a benefit than he who bestows one.

  Owen Feltham

  Noble, Benefits, May

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• A man hath riches. Whence came they, and whither go they? for this is the way to form a judgment of the esteem which they and their possessor deserve. If they have been acquired by fraud or violence, if they make him proud and vain, if they minister to luxury and intemperance, if they are avariciously hoarded up and applied to no proper use, the possessor becomes odious and contemptible.

  John Jortin

  Men, Luxury, Violence

  John Jortin (1787). “Sermons on Different Subjects: By the Late Reverend John Jortin, ...”, p.75

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• Few men are both rich and generous; fewer are both rich and humble.

  Henry Edward Manning

  Humble, Men, Fewer

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• He who recognizes no higher logic than that of the shilling may become a very rich man, and yet remain all the while an exceedingly poor creature; for riches are no proof whatever of moral worth, and their glitter often serves only to draw attention to the worthlessness of their possessor, as the glow-worm's light reveals the grub.

  Samuel Smiles

  Men, Light, Attention

  Samuel Smiles (1871). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Characters, Conduct, and Perseverance”, p.341

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• Of riches it is not necessary to write the praise. Let it, however, be remembered that he who has money to spare has it always in his power to benefit others, and of such power a good man must always be desirous.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Men, Good Man

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1859). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”, p.319

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• Riches, perhaps, do not so often produce crimes as incite accusers.

  Samuel Johnson

  Crime, Produce, Accusers

  Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.68

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• Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Grandchildren, Hungry Eyes

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

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• Riches don't respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence.

  Napoleon Hill

  Persistence, Wish, Desire

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Wallace Wattles, Charles F. Haanel, Napoleon Hill “Think, Thank, Thunk - Self-Help Collection”, Lulu.com

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• You can have all the riches and success in the world, but if you dont have your health, you have nothing.

  Steven Adler

  World, Ifs

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• If money is your hope for independence you will never have it

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Money, Greatest Wealth

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• For centuries, Europeans dominated the African continent. The white man arrogated to himself the right to rule and to be obeyed by the non-white; his mission, he claimed, was to "civilize" Africa. Under this cloak, the Europeans robbed the continent of vast riches and inflicted unimaginable suffering on the African people.

  Kwame Nkrumah

  Men, White Man, People

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• The riches of the rich are not the cause of the poverty of anybody; the process that makes some people rich is, on the contrary, the corollary of the process that improves many peoples want satisfaction. The entrepreneurs, the capitalists and the technologists prosper as far as they succeed in best supplying the consumers.

  Ludwig von Mises

  People, Entrepreneur, Want

  Ludwig Von Mises (1978). “Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The”, p.43, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• We can stop waiting for life to become perfect and start working with what we’ve got to make it as satisfying as we can. We can accept, bless, give thanks, and get going. Today, we can begin to call forth the riches from our everyday life. Today we can move from lack to abundance.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Moving, Giving, Perfect

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• No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Money, Men, Literature

  "Love in the Time of Cholera" by Gabriel García Márquez, (p. 167), 1985.

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• Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

  Robert Orben

  Inspirational, Funny, Good Morning

  "Hitting Your Peak: Financial Strength" by Ryan Murphy, www.askmen.com.

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• Legionary life is beautiful, not because of riches, partying or the acquisition of luxury, but because of the noble comradeship which binds all Legionaries in a sacred brotherhood of struggle.

  Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

  Beautiful, Party, Struggle

  "For My Legionaries: The Iron Guard". Book by Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, 1936.

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• The use of riches is better than their possession.

  Fernando de Rojas

  Use, Possession

  "La Celestina". Book by Fernando de Rojas, 1499.

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