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It is a bad business, dealing in lottery tickets ... Riches got in such a hasty manner never wear well.
You can have all the riches and success in the world, but if you don't have your health, you have nothing.
Riches seem to come to the poor in spirit, the poor in interest and joy. To put it straight - the very rich are a poor bunch of bastards
'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.
As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.
...in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.
No, I have no desire for riches. Honest poverty and a conscience, torpid through virtuous inaction, are more to me than corner lots and praise.
Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none.
You know I have loved him always. But we are very poor. Who, being loved, is poor? Oh, no one. I hate my riches. They are a burden.
Great riches have sold more men than they have bought.
Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.
An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
Riches exclude only one inconvenience,--that is, poverty.
Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.
The world has not yet learned the riches of frugality.
Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.
As riches grow, care follows, and a thirst For more and more.
To gain riches is wise; to pay for riches with happiness is foolish.
The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.
No one is kept in poverty by a shortness in the supply of riches, there is more than enough for all.
Riches without law are more dangerous than is poverty without law
If you did not do so for the sake of riches,You must have done so for the sake of novelty.
Luxury either comes of riches or makes them necessary; it corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.
Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother.
The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.
Riches, when they come in huge quantities, are never the result of HARD work!
Riches, perhaps, do not so often produce crimes as incite accusers.
Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
The human soul is God's treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
Men leave their riches either to their kindred or their friends, and moderate portions prosper best in both.
Intelligent planning is essential for success in any undertaking designed to accumulate riches.
Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.
If your riches are yours, why don't you take them with you to the other world?
Increasing wealth is attended by care and by the desire of greater increase.
Riches are for spending, and spending for honor and good actions; therefore extraordinary expense must be limited by the worth of the occasion.
If you do not see great riches in your imagination, you will never see them in your bank balance.
Wit will never make a man rich, but there are places where riches will always make a wit.
Content and Riches seldom meet together, Riches take thou, contentment I had rather.
Everything, virtue, glory, honor, things human and divine, all are slaves to riches.
Men seem neither to understand their riches nor their strength. Of the former they believe greater things than they should; of the latter, less.
There is but one dependable method of accumulating and legally holding riches, and that is by rendering useful service.
Riches are of no value in themselves; their use is discovered only in that which they procure.
Riches with their wicked inducements increase; nevertheless, avarice is never satisfied.
I pray daily, not for more riches, but for more wisdom with which to recognize, embrace and enjoy what I already possess.
One cause, which is not always observed, of the insufficiency of riches, is that they very seldom make their owner rich.
For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now obey the alluring influence of riches.
When riches begin to come they come so quickly, in such great abundance, that one wonders where they have been hiding during all those lean years.
A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.