Give me neither poverty nor riches.
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Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.
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Misery assails riches, as lightning does the highest towers; or as a tree that is heavy laden with fruit breaks its own boughs, so riches destroy the virtue of their possessor.
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Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun.
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Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honours depend upon heaven.
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A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.
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Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.
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Let this be an example for the acquisition of all knowledge, virtue, and riches. By the fall of drops of water, by degrees, a pot is filled.
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A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
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As riches and favor forsake a man, we discover him to be a fool, but nobody could find it out in his prosperity.
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Labour not after riches first, and think thou afterwards wilt enjoy them. He who neglecteth the present moment, throweth away all that he hath. As the arrow passeth through the heart, while the warrior knew not that it was coming; so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.
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Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own
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A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favor cannot satisfy him
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The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny
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Well, that's baseball. Rags to riches one day and riches to rags the next. But I've been in it thirty-six years and I'm used to it.
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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and at the bottom of the Spanish Main.. And best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.
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Why is it that, as we grow older, we are so reluctant to change? It is not so much that new ideas are painful, for they are not. It is that old ideas are seldom entirely false, but have truth, great truth in them. The justification for conservatism is the desire to preserve the truths and standards of the past; its dangers, of which we are seldom aware, is that in preserving those values, we may miss the infinitely greater riches that lie in the future.
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All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Children are poor men's riches
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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
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'Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.
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Fame and riches are fleeting. Stupidity is eternal
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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
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Since all the riches of this world May be gifts from the Devil and earthly kings, I should suspect that I worshipp'd the Devil If I thank'd my God for worldly things
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