| There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite. -- Thomas Bailey Aldrich |
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Aldrich, Thomas B.Era:
1836 |
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| He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either. -- Friedrich W. Nietzsche |
| Author:
Nietzsche, FriedrichEra:
1844 |
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| You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich. -- Henry Ward Beecher |
| Author:
Beecher, Henry WardEra:
1813 |
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| We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse. -- Anne Swetchine |
| Author:
Swetchine, AnneEra:
1782 |
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| Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven. -- Confucius |
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ConfuciusEra:
-551 |
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| A man is called selfish, not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting the neighbor's. -- richard Whately |
| Author:
Whately, RichardEra:
1787 |
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| I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses. -- Heinrich Heine |
| Author:
Heine, HeinrichEra:
1797 |
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| I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion. -- Henry David Thoreau |
| Author:
Thoreau, Henry DavidEra:
1817 |
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| richer is one hour of repentance and good works in this world than all of life of the world to come; and richer is one hour's calm of spirit in the world to come than all of life of this world. -- The Talmud |
| Author:
Talmud, TheEra:
-500 |
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| The beloved of the Almighty are: the rich who have the humility of the poor, and the poor who have the magnamity of the rich. -- Saadi |
| Author:
SaadiEra:
1184 |
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| Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. -- Friedrich Nietzsche |
| Author:
Nietzsche, FriedrichEra:
1844 |
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| Children are the keys of paradise. -- richard Stoddard |
| Author:
Stoddard, RichardEra:
1825 |
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| A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him. -- Samuel Johnson |
| Author:
Johnson, SamuelEra:
1709 |
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| Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations. -- Jean Paul richter |
| Author:
Richter, Jean PaulEra:
1763 |
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| It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet,than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble. -- Epicurus |
| Author:
EpicurusEra:
-341 |
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| Misery assails riches, as lightning does the highest towers; or as a tree that is heavy laden with fruit breaks its own boughs, so riches destroy the virtue of their possessor. -- richard E. Burton |
| Author:
Burton, Richard E.Era:
1861 |
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| Property is not theft, but a good deal of theft becomes property. -- richard H. Tawney |
| Author:
Tawney, Richard H.Era:
1880 |
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| Labour not after riches first, and think thou afterwards wilt enjoy them. He who neglecteth the present moment, throweth away all that he hath. As the arrow passeth through the heart, while the warrior knew not that it was coming; so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it. -- Akhenaton |
| Author:
AkhenatonEra:
-1375 |
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| A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind. -- Anacharsis |
| Author:
AnacharsisEra:
-600 |
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| riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss. -- St. Gregory I |
| Author:
Gregory I, St.Era:
540 |
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| It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor. -- Edmund Spenser |
| Author:
Spenser, EdmundEra:
1552 |
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| In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason. -- Heinrich Heine |
| Author:
Heine, HeinrichEra:
1797 |
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| Let this be an example for the acquisition of all knowledge,virtue, and riches. By the fall of drops of water, by degrees, a pot is filled. -- The Hitopadesa |
| Author:
Hitopadesa, TheEra:
600 |
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| Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of government ever heard of on earth. -- H. L. Mencken |
| Author:
Mencken, H. L.Era:
1880 |
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| He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years -- Chinese Proverb |
| Author:
Proverb, ChineseEra:
0 |
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| To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty. -- richard Steele |
| Author:
Steele, RichardEra:
1672 |
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| There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof. -- Jean Paul richter |
| Author:
Richter, Jean PaulEra:
1763 |
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| Time is a continual over-dropping of moments, which fall down one upon the other and evaporate. -- Jean Paul richter |
| Author:
Richter, Jean PaulEra:
1763 |
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| Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment. -- Joseph Hall |
| Author:
Hall, JosephEra:
1574 |
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| Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them. -- Jean Paul richter |
| Author:
Richter, Jean PaulEra:
1763 |
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| People demand freedom only when they have no power. -- Friedrich W. Nietzsche |
| Author:
Nietzsche, FriedrichEra:
1844 |
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| In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents? -- Mark Twain |
| Author:
Twain, MarkEra:
1835 |
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| The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell. -- John Foster |
| Author:
Foster, JohnEra:
1836 |
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| Who soweth good seed shall surely reap; The year grows rich as it groweth old, And life's latest sands are its sands of gold! -- Julia Ripley Dorr |
| Author:
Dorr, Julia RipleyEra:
1825 |
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| Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun. -- Robert Burton |
| Author:
Burton, RobertEra:
1576 |
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| True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves. -- Phaedrus |
| Author:
PhaedrusEra:
25 |
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| Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell. -- Walter Bagehot |
| Author:
Bagehot, WalterEra:
1826 |
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| The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing. -- Sir Ralph richardson |
| Author:
Richardson, Sir RalphEra:
1902 |
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| It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth. -- Charles C. Colton |
| Author:
Colton, Charles C.Era:
1780 |
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| O, he sits high in all the people's hearts; And that which would appear offence in us, His countenance, like richest alchemy, Will change to virtue and to worthiness. -- William Shakespeare |
| Author:
Shakespeare, WilliamEra:
1564 |
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| If thou art rich, thou art poor; for, like an ass, whose back with ingots bows, thou bearest the heavy riches but a journey, and death unloads thee. -- William Shakespeare |
| Author:
Shakespeare, WilliamEra:
1564 |
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| Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise. -- Samuel Johnson |
| Author:
Johnson, SamuelEra:
1709 |
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| Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power. -- Jean Paul richter |
| Author:
Richter, Jean PaulEra:
1763 |
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| Prayer purifies; it is a self-preached sermon. -- Jean Paul richter |
| Author:
Richter, Jean PaulEra:
1763 |
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| The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough. -- Heinrich Heine |
| Author:
Heine, HeinrichEra:
1797 |
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| Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor. -- Euripides |
| Author:
EuripidesEra:
-480 |
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| All men wish to have truth on their side; but few to be on the side of truth. -- richard Whately |
| Author:
Whately, RichardEra:
1787 |
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| If rich men would remember that shrouds have no pockets, they would, while living, share their wealth with their children, and give for the good of others, and so know the highest pleasure wealth can give. -- Tryon Edwards |
| Author:
Edwards, TryonEra:
1809 |
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| Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity. -- Friedrich Nietzsche |
| Author:
Nietzsche, FriedrichEra:
1844 |
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| They only babble who practise not reflection. -- richard B. Sheridan |
| Author:
Sheridan, Richard B.Era:
1751 |
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| Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments. -- Samuel Johnson |
| Author:
Johnson, SamuelEra:
1709 |
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