Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.
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Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength enough to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some goods in your neighbor. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real the things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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To be prosperous is not to be superior, and should form no barrier between men. Wealth out not to secure the prosperous the slightest consideration. The only distinctions which should be recognized are those of the soul, of strong principle, of incorruptible integrity, of usefulness, of cultivated intellect, of fidelity in seeking the truth.
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Who are you, reader, reading my poems an hundred years hence? I cannot send you one single flower from this wealth of the spring, one single streak of gold from yonder clouds. Open your doors and look abroad. From your blossoming garden gather fragrant
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Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.
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Children are a poor man's wealth.
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We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.
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If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility
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Come, sleep, O sleep! The certain knot of peace, The baiting place of wit, the balm of woe; The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, The impartial judge between the high and low.
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Ill fares the land, to hast'ning ill a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay Princes and Lords may flourish, or may fade A breath can make them, as a breath has made but a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed can never be supplied.
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Ginger He exists in a world beyond your world. What we only fantasize he does. He lives a life where nothing is beyond. But you know what its all a facade. All his charm and charisma, his wealth, his expensive toys. He is a driven, unflinching, calculating machine. He takes what he wants and then disappears. You don't find him he finds you.
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The world at large does not judge us by who we are and what we know; it judges us by what we have.
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What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.
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It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich. They have served no apprenticeship to wealth, and with the rapid wealth come rapid claims which they do not know how to deny, and the treasure is quickly dissipated.
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Wealth is not his that has it, but his who enjoys it.
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The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
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He does not possess wealth it possesses him.
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Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.
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A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world.
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It is the sign of a week mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.
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Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.
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It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness.
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The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving.
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