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"Will you tell me how to prevent riches from producing luxury? Will you tell me how to prevent luxury from producing effeminacy, intoxication, extravagance, vice and folly?"
"Riches attract attention, consideration, and congratulations of mankind."
"In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms"
"Every person who will learn the right way, and who will then continue diligently to follow that right way, is absolutely certain in time to possess great riches and all attending blessings."
"Plenty and indigence depend upon the opinion every one has of them; and riches, like glory of health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleaded to lend them."
"Seek spiritual riches within. What you are is much greater than anyone or anything else you have ever yearned for."
"If you did not do so for the sake of riches,You must have done so for the sake of novelty."
"The secret to riches is the same as the secret to comedy - timing."
"A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that the spiritual goods on one side-the 'unsearchable riches of Christ' - are actually transported into personal lives upon the other."
"No riches from his scanty store / My lover could impart; / He gave a boon I valued more - / He gave me all his heart!"
"I care for riches, to make gifts."
"Ignorance is degrading only when found in company with great riches."
"You can't anticipate in the room the riches of what you encounter when you're location hunting for a movie."
"To have an open self is to provide a free channel for the infinite goodness of God. To have an open self is to keep yourself aware, alert and sensitive to the beauty and wonder of life. God's love will flow through you into the world when you are open. You enlarge the dimensions of your life when you keep yourself open to the highest and best. The key to God's infinite riches is within you; open yourself and you will receive."
"Riches seldom make their owners rich."
"It is a sin directly against one's neighbour, since one man cannot over-abound in external riches, without another man lacking them."
"Self-denial is the best riches."
"Riches are for spending, and spending for honor and good actions; therefore extraordinary expense must be limited by the worth of the occasion."
"I've got a few guitars that I like. The trouble with fame and riches is that you have more than one guitar."
"Yes, I was a fool, but I was in love, and though I was suffering the greatest misery I had ever known I would not have had it otherwise for all the riches of Barsoom. Such is love, and such are lovers wherever love is known."
