Riches Quotes
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It is commonly said that covetousness is one of the reigning sins of old age. How strange that it should be so! Especially considering what they have seen, and known, and it may be, felt of the emptiness and uncertainty of riches. They have witnessed how often they make themselves wings. What! And not yet convinced! What! Almost at the end of thy journey, and yet loading thyself with thick clay! Think of the time of day. It is almost night; even sun-set. And art thou unmindful of the grave? The body is bending downwards, let the heart be upwards.
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Men who have great riches and little culture rush into business, because they are weary of themselves.
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Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.
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If you do not see great riches in your imagination, you will never see them in your bank balance.
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Las Vegas, Nevada: A city where oddities don't make you lame, But instead bring you riches and fortune and fame.
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The rich are like beasts of burden, carrying treasure all day, and at the night of death unladen; they carry to their grave only the bruises and marks of their toil.
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Riches without law are more dangerous than is poverty without law.
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If you are poor, live wisely. If you have riches, live wisely. It is not your station in life but your heart that brings blessings.
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Success always calls for greater generosity - though most people, lost in the darkness of their own egos, treat it as an occasion for greater greed. Collecting boot is not an end itself, but only a means for building an empire. Riches would be of little use to us now - except as a means of winning new friends.
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If an abundance of those things which a people considers the goods and the riches of the earth defines wealth, then it follows that that particular culture is wealthy in proportion to the production and distribution of just those things and no others; and it does not depend upon what another people may consider the goods and riches, no matter how greatly those things have multiplied for them, nor how many individuals they have to possess them. What industrialism counts as the goods and riches of the earth the agrarian South does not, nor ever will.
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I care for riches, to make gifts.
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Satiety comes of riches and contumaciousness of satiety.
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Do not praise an undeserving man because of his riches.
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The oat is the Horatio Alger of cereals, which progressed, if not from rags to riches, at least from weed to health food.
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Banks and riches are chains of gold, but still chains.
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Bathe in your riches and friends, I'll stay here with my songbooks and pens
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I have the greatest of all riches: that of not desiring them.
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You can have all the riches and success in the world, but if you don't have your health, you have nothing.
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The American dream was not, at least at the beginning, a rags-to-riches type of narrow materialism.
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He who owns a wood of proper land in this country, and, in the face of all the personal riches of the day, only raises crabs and choke pears, deserves to lose the respect of all sensible men.
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Every person who will learn the right way, and who will then continue diligently to follow that right way, is absolutely certain in time to possess great riches and all attending blessings.
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Riches are able to solder up abundance of flaws.
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Many evil men are rich, and good men poor, but we shall not exchange with them our excellence for riches.
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I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
