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"Poverty hath slain a thousand, but riches have slain ten thousand. They are very uncertain, they promise that which they cannot perform, neither can they afford a contented mind."
"When I think of God's Kingdom, I am compelled to be silent because of its immensity, because God's Kingdom is none other than God himself with all His riches."
"Riches for the most part are hurtful to them that possess them."
"If your riches are yours, why don't you take them with you to the other world?"
"Human prosperity never rests but always craves more, till blown up with pride it totters and falls. From the opulent mansions pointed at by all passers-by none warns it away, none cries, 'Let no more riches enter!'."
"My life has often been described as 'from rags to riches' but in fact, the Ross's were never raggedy."
"The rich fool is like a pig that is choked by its own fat."
"Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits."
"Better to have fewer wants than greater riches to supply increasing wants."
"Wit will never make a man rich, but there are places where riches will always make a wit."
"Riches exclude only one inconvenience,--that is, poverty."
"Riches, perhaps, do not so often produce crimes as incite accusers."
"Riches are of no value in themselves; their use is discovered only in that which they procure."
"One cause, which is not always observed, of the insufficiency of riches, is that they very seldom make their owner rich."
"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."
"Lack of desire is the greatest riches."
"Intelligent planning is essential for success in any undertaking designed to accumulate riches."
"Riches ennoble a man's circumstances, but not himself."
"The fame of the rich man dies with him; the fame of the treasure, and not of the man who possessed it, remains."
"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."
