"That which can be lost cannot be deemed riches."
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"The inspired Scriptures make the clear distinction between false and true riches and make plain the reason why happiness is gained and fully enjoyed only by those who find true riches."
"Those who spend too fast never grow rich."
"Riches are for spending."
"Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress."
"There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty."
"All about my riches/ My name should be Richard"
"By his own efforts man could never gain the true and desired riches."
"And fame, for a painter means sales, gains, fortune, riches. And today, as you know, I am celebrated. I am rich."
"The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles."
"Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it."
"How happy we would be if we could find the treasure of which the Gospel speaks; all else would be as nothing. As it is boundless, the more you search for it the greater the riches you will find; let us search unceasingly and let us not stop until we have found it."
"For as the interposition of a rivulet, however small, will occasion the line of the phalanx to fluctuate, so any trifling disagreement will be the cause of seditions; but they will not so soon flow from anything else as from the disagreement between virtue and vice, and next to that between poverty and riches."
"Money is human happiness in the abstract."
"There's plenty of room for everyone in the world. Enough money, riches, and beauty for all to share. God has made enought for everyone, so let us all begin then by sharing it fairly."
"If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty."
"Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction."
"There can be no rule of God in the present state of iniquitous inequalities in which a few roll in riches and the masses do not get enough to eat."
"There is but one dependable method of accumulating and legally holding riches, and that is by rendering useful service."
"Riches make cowards of us."