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    It is easy at any moment to resign the possession of a great
    fortune; to acquire it is difficult and arduous.
    [Lat., Facile est momento quo quis velit, cedere possessione
    magnae fortunae; facere et parare eam, difficile atque arduum
    est.]

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Without a rich heart wealth is an ugly beggar.

Without a rich heart wealth is an ugly beggar.

by Ralph Waldo Emerson Found in: Wealth Quotes,
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If thou art rich, thou'rt poor,
For, like an ass whose back with ingots bows,
Thou bear'st read more

If thou art rich, thou'rt poor,
For, like an ass whose back with ingots bows,
Thou bear'st thy heavy riches but a journey,
And death unloads thee.

by William Shakespeare Found in: Wealth Quotes,
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The rich man's sons inherits cares;
The bank may break, the factory burn,
A breath may burst read more

The rich man's sons inherits cares;
The bank may break, the factory burn,
A breath may burst his bubble shares,
And soft, white hands could hardly earn
A living that would serve his turn.

by James Russell Lowell Found in: Wealth Quotes,
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Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from read more

Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

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The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.

by Benjamin Franklin Found in: Wealth Quotes,
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He does not possess wealth that allows it to possess him.

He does not possess wealth that allows it to possess him.

by Benjamin Franklin Found in: Wealth Quotes,
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Dame Nature gave him comeliness and health,
And Fortune (for a passport) gave him wealth.

Dame Nature gave him comeliness and health,
And Fortune (for a passport) gave him wealth.

by Walter Harte Found in: Wealth Quotes,
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A little house well fill'd, a little land well till'd, and a
little wife well will'd, are great riches.

A little house well fill'd, a little land well till'd, and a
little wife well will'd, are great riches.

by Unattributed Author Found in: Wealth Quotes,
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Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their
thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God
Almighty read more

Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their
thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God
Almighty has appointed this His universe to go.

by Thomas Carlyle Found in: Wealth Quotes,
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