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    Can wealth give happiness? look round and see
    What gay distress! what splendid misery!
    Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour,
    The mind annihilates, and calls for more.

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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

by Socrates 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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If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would
not have given them to such read more

If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would
not have given them to such a scoundrel.

by Jonathan Swift Found in: Wealth Quotes,
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Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to
administer in his lifetime for the good read more

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to
administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

by Andrew Carnegie Found in: Wealth Quotes,
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Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broken in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with read more

Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broken in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with eating them.

by R. Venning Found in: Wealth Quotes,
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Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less read more

Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.

by Ralph Waldo Emerson Found in: Wealth Quotes,
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For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now
obey the alluring influence of riches.
[Lat., Omnis read more

For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now
obey the alluring influence of riches.
[Lat., Omnis enim res,
Virtus, fama, decus, divina, humanaque pulchris
Divitiis parent.]

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Through life's dark road his sordid way he wends,
An incarnation of fat dividends.

Through life's dark road his sordid way he wends,
An incarnation of fat dividends.

by Charles Sprague Found in: Wealth Quotes,
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O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year.

O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year.

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