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Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.
And fame, for a painter means sales, gains, fortune, riches. And today, as you know, I am celebrated. I am rich.
It is rare to see a rich man religious; for religion preaches restraint, and riches prompt to unlicensed freedom.
There is no stronger craving in the world than that of the rich for titles, except that of the titled for riches.
Seek spiritual riches within. What you are is much greater than anyone or anything else you have ever yearned for.
There is no substitute for the riches gained on a lifetime basis by the young American who studies or works abroad.
The way to transform your immense inner value into outer riches is by giving it freely and authentically to others.
The gospel of Jesus Christ is more enduring than fame, more precious than riches, more to be desired than happiness.
There are some rich people who, no matter how much God sends their way, never seem to put their hope in their riches.
No riches from his scanty store / My lover could impart; / He gave a boon I valued more - / He gave me all his heart!
Come with me into the world and reclaim your independence. You stand to gain so much, and riches are the least of it.
The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.
Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broke in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with eating them.
There are plenty of ways to get ahead. The first is so basic I'm almost embarrassed to say it: spend less than you earn.
To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.
A rich woman seems to have all her banknotes about her, guarding her virtue, like a cuirass, in the lining of her corset.
It was wisely said, by a man of great observation, that there are as many miseries beyond riches as on this side of them.
With such riches as I have in life, you're always nervous. Being Irish, you're waiting for something to knock it sideways.
As riches increase and accumulate in few hands . . . the tendency of things will be to depart from the republican standard.
Destiny and fate are of one’s own making, and riches and happiness are rarely found at the end of an easily-traversed path.
Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none
[Autobiographies] are all the same - it's always rags-to-riches or I-slept-with-so-and-so. Damned if I'm going to say that.
O, my God! withhold from me the wealth to which tears and sighs and curses cleave. Better none at all than wealth like that.
If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.
The care of our national commerce redounds more to the riches and prosperity of the public than any other act of government.
Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
I am not greedy of money myself, but the monotony of always screwing and paring is more tiresome than the monotony of riches.
Riches do not come by crossing your fingers and walking through the day hoping. Riches and wealth comes from well-laid plans.
There is one way whereby we may secure our riches, and make sure friends to ourselves of them,--by laying them out in charity.
History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
We would also like you to know that the Church recognizes the riches of the Islamic faith - a faith that binds us to the one God.
Men living in democratic times have many passions, but most of their passions either end in the love of riches, or proceed from it.
And now that I don't want to own anything any more and am free, now I suddenly own everything, now my inner riches are immeasurable.
What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?
It is a sin directly against one's neighbour, since one man cannot over-abound in external riches, without another man lacking them.
Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use.
Our riches, being in our brains, die with us... Unless of course someone chops off our head, in which case, we won't need them anyway.
The Word tells us that God meets our needs according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. Begin to talk and act as though it is true!
What will you do on the day of reckoning, when disaster comes from afar? To whom will you run for help? Where will you leave your riches?
There is nothing wrong with being poor; but there is everything wrong with remaining poor after you have discovered your riches in Christ.
Become a beacon of enhancement, and then, when the night is gray, all of the boats will move towards you, bringing their bountiful riches.
I have no fears that on a purely merit basis, we will have an embarrassment of riches from which to choose in order to reach gender parity.
I think that most of us [writers] would rather have an audience than countless riches. If we wanted to be rich, we'd be doing smething else.
Riches get their value from the mind of the possessor; they are blessings to those who know how to use them, and curses to those who do not.
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.
I have mental joys and mental health, Mental friends and mental wealth, I've a wife that I love and that loves me; I've all but riches bodily.
He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine.
...and then, in dreaming, / The clouds methought would open and show riches / Ready to drop upon me, that when I waked / I cried to dream again.