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Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broken in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with read more
Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broken in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with eating them.
Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less read more
Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.
Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed
no more than seaweed.
[Lat., Et genus et read more
Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed
no more than seaweed.
[Lat., Et genus et virtus, nisi cum re, vilior alga est.]
Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from read more
Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
Know from the bounteous heavens all riches flow;
And what man gives, the gods by man bestow.
Know from the bounteous heavens all riches flow;
And what man gives, the gods by man bestow.
And you prate of the wealth of nations, as if it were bought and
sold,
The wealth of read more
And you prate of the wealth of nations, as if it were bought and
sold,
The wealth of nations is men, not silk and cotton and gold.
Without a rich heart wealth is an ugly beggar.
Without a rich heart wealth is an ugly beggar.
Our Lord commonly giveth Riches to such gross asses, to whom he
affordeth nothing else that is good.
Our Lord commonly giveth Riches to such gross asses, to whom he
affordeth nothing else that is good.
Riches are a good handmaiden, but the worst mistress.
Riches are a good handmaiden, but the worst mistress.