"Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own."
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"Wisdom adorneth riches and casteth a shadow over poverty."
"Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million."
"The more stitches, the less riches."
"Let the Lord your God be your hope – seek for nothing else from him, but let him himself be your hope. There are people who hope from him riches or perishable and transitory honours, in short they hope to get from God things which are not God himself."
"You can have all the riches and success in the world, but if you dont have your health, you have nothing."
"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."
"Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches."
"When Anaxagoras was told of the death of his son, he only said, "I knew he was mortal." So we in all casualties of life should say "I knew my riches were uncertain, that my friend was but a man." Such considerations would soon pacify us, because all our troubles proceed from their being unexpected."
"God in his omnipotence could not give more, in His wisdom He knew not how to give more, in His riches He had not more to give, than the Eucharist."
"Fortune can take away riches, but not courage."
"He who multiplies riches multiplies cares."
"Riches is nothing in the face of the Lord, for He can see into the heart."
"...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."
"Morals today are corrupted by our worship of riches."
"Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion."
"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."
"The rich are like beasts of burden, carrying treasure all day, and at the night of death unladen; they carry to their grave only the bruises and marks of their toil."
"You have riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don't you use them in the search for love?"
"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."