Wealth Quotes

• "Our Lord commonly giveth Riches to such gross asses, to whom he affordeth nothing else that is good."
  By: Martin Luther, Colloquies (p. 90), (ed. 1652)
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• "Wealth is the smallest thing on earth, the least gift that God has bestowed on mankind."
  By: Martin Luther
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• "The rich man's son inherits cares; The bank may break, the factory burn, A breath may burst his bubble shares, And soft, white hands could hardly earn A living that would serve his turn."
  By: James Russell Lowell, The Heritage
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• "Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, it means leisure, it means liberty."
  By: James Russell Lowell
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• "Old gold has a civilizing virtue which new gold must grow old to be capable of secreting."
  By: James Russell Lowell
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• "These grains of gold are not grains of wheat! These bars of silver thou canst not eat; These jewels and pearls and precious stones Cannot cure the aches in thy bones, Nor keep the feet of death one hour From climbing the stairways of thy tower."
  By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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• "All wealth is the product of labor."
  By: John Locke (1)
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• "It is easy at any moment to resign the possession of a great fortune; to acquire it is difficult and arduous. [Lat., Facile est momento quo quis velit, cedere possessione magnae fortunae; facere et parare eam, difficile atque arduum est.]"
  By: Titus Livy, Annales (XXIV, 22)
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• "Riches are gotten with pain, kept with care, and lost with grief. The cares of riches lie heavier upon a good man than the inconveniences of an honest poverty."
  By: Sir Roger L'Estrange
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• "The most brilliant fortunes are often not worth the littleness required to gain them."
  By: Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
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• "Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in train of it excessive poverty; as where the sun is brightest the shade is deepest."
  By: Walter Savage Landor
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• "We all covet wealth, but not its perils."
  By: Jean de la Bruyere
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• "There is nothing keeps longer than a middling fortune, and nothing melts away sooner than a great one. Poverty treads upon the heels of great and unexpected riches."
  By: Jean de la Bruyere
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• "Let us not envy some men their accumulated riches; their burden would be too heavy for us; we could not sacrifice, as they do, health, quiet, honor, and conscience, to obtain them: it is to pay so dear for them, that the bargain is a loss."
  By: Jean de la Bruyere
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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."
  By: Jean de la Bruyere
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• "Wealth is an imperious mistress; she requires the whole heart and life of man."
  By: Edouard Rene Lefebure Laboulaye
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