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• Every one is weary, the poore in seeking, the rich in keeping, the good in learning.

  George Herbert

  Weary, Seeking

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.312

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• Good workemen are seldome rich.

  George Herbert

  Good Work

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.352

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• The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.

  William Cowper

  Thinking, Bears, Poor

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• Ay! idleness! the rich folks never fail
  To find some reason why the poor deserve
  Their miseries.

  Robert Southey

  Poverty, Reason Why, Misery

  Robert Southey (1854). “Ballads, metrical tales and other poems”, p.141

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• Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.

  Ben Jonson

  Men, Order, Law

  Ben Jonson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ben Jonson (Illustrated)”, p.3200, Delphi Classics

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• Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.

  Ben Jonson

  Mean, Remembrance, World

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1857). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.140

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• Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd,
  And still where many a garden flower grows wild,
  There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose,
  The village preacher's modest mansion rose.
  A man he was to all the country dear,
  And passing rich with forty pounds a year;
  Remote from town's he ran his godly race,
  Nor e'er had chang'd nor wish'd to change his place;
  Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power,
  By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour;
  Far other aims his heart had learn'd to prize.
  More bent to raise the wretched than to rise.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Country, Fashion, Flower

  Oliver Goldsmith (1856). “The Miscellaneous Works: Poems. Miscellaneous pieces. Dramas. Criticism relating to poetry and the belles-lettres”, p.69

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• Religion does what philosophy could never do; it shows the equal dealings of Heaven to the happy and the unhappy, and levels all human enjoyments to nearly the same standard. It gives to both rich and poor the same happiness hereafter, and equal hopes to aspire after it.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Philosophy, Giving, Heaven

  Oliver Goldsmith (1871). “The works of Oliver Goldsmith: Vicar of Wakefield, select poems and comedies, with intr., notes and a life by J.F. Waller”, p.159

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• Iris all hues, roses, and jessamine Reared high their flourished heads between, and wrought Mosaic; underfoot the violet, Crocus, and hyacinth with rich inlay Broidered the ground, more coloured than with stone Of costliest emblem: other creature here Beast, bird, insect, or worm durst enter none; Such was their awe of man.

  John Milton

  Men, Rose, Bird

  1665 Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.4, l.698-705.

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• The Negro is an exotic of the most gorgeous and superb countries of the world, and he has deep in his heart a passion for all that is splendid, rich and fanciful.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Country, Passion, Heart

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852). “Uncle Tom's Cabin, Or, Negro Life in the Slave States of America: With Fifty Splendid Engravings”, p.138

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• To put it quite crudely ... the poor don't really know how the rich live, and the rich don't know how the poor live, and to find out is really enchanting to both of them.

  Agatha Christie

  Poor, Enchanting, Know How

  Agatha Christie (1968). “Endless night”

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• I've always thought that the most perfect fate which could befall any woman would be to be born a rich widow.

  Faith Baldwin

  Women, Fate, Perfect

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• A soul which is conversant with virtue is like an ever flowing source, for it is pure and tranquil and potable and sweet and communicative (social) and rich and harmless and free from mischief.

  Epictetus

  Sweet, Soul, Virtue

  Epictetus (2012). “Enchiridion”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• Where art thou, beloved To-morrow?
  When young and old, and strong and weak,
  Rich and poor, through joy and sorrow,
  Thy sweet smiles we ever seek,--
  In thy place--ah! well-a-day!
  We find the thing we fled--To-day!

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Sweet, Art, Strong

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1831). “The poetical works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats”, p.477

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• Ceremony keeps up things: 'tis like a penny glass to a rich spirit, or some excellent water; without it the water were spilt, and the spirit lost.

  John Selden

  Glasses, Water, Pennies

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• Without peace there can be no prosperity for any people, rich or poor. And yet, there can be no peace without erasing the harshness of the growing contrast between the rich and the poor.

  Indira Gandhi

  Peace, Rich Or Poor, People

  Indira Gandhi (1975). “Indira Gandhi, speeches and writings”

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• Let us not repine, or so much as think the gifts of God unequally dealt, if we see another abound with riches, when, as God knows, the cares that are the keys that keep those riches hang often so heavily at the rich man's girdle that they dog him with weary days and restless nights, even when others sleep quietly.

  Izaak Walton

  Dog, Sleep, Night

  Izaak Walton (1653). “The Complete Angler: Or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation”, p.225

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• We see but the outside of a rich man's happiness; few consider him to be like the silkworm, that, when she seems to play, is at the very same time consuming herself.

  Izaak Walton

  Men, Play, Riches

  Izaak Walton (1853). “The Complete Angler ... Edited by James Rennie. With illustrations and a portrait”, p.234

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• Nowhere in this country, from sea to sea, does nature comfort us with such assurance of plenty, such rich and tranquil beauty as in those unsung, unpainted hills of Pennsylvania.

  Rebecca Harding Davis

  Country, Sea, Comfort

  Rebecca Harding Davis (2010). “Rebecca Harding Davis's Stories of the Civil War Era: Selected Writings from the Borderlands”, p.20, University of Georgia Press

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• The American spring is like the country itself: abundant, rich, flowing over you like a full tide. ... Azaleas were suddenly ablaze. White dogwoods stood like brides in the wood - these trees of all colors were new to me; one does not meet them in Europe, and dogwood cannot even be transplanted to other continents. White and pink magnolias, yellowish rhododendrons, all of them lived happily side by side with our ordinary lilacs and lilies of the valley - the Russian symbols of spring.

  Svetlana Alliluyeva

  Country, Spring, Azaleas

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• We are often infinitely mistaken, and take the falsest measures, when we envy the happiness of rich and great men; we know not the inward canker that eats out all their joy and delight, and makes them really much more miserable than ourselves.

  Joseph Hall

  Men, Envy, Joy

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• If all were rich, gold would be penniless.

  Philip James Bailey

  Gold, Would Be, Ifs

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.211

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• in a socialist country you can get rich by providing necessities, while in a capitalist country you can get rich by providing luxuries.

  Nora Ephron

  Country, Socialist Countries, Luxury

  Nora Ephron (2011). “Heartburn”, p.171, Vintage

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• Themistocles replied that a man's discourse was like to a rich Persian carpet, the beautiful figures and patterns of which can only be shown by spreading and extending it out; when it is contracted and folded up, they are obscured and lost.

  Plutarch

  Beautiful, Men, Speech

  Plutarch (2012). “Greek and Roman Lives”, p.61, Courier Corporation

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• I would have, then, our ordinary dwelling-houses built to last, and built to be lovely; as rich and full of pleasantness as may be within and without: . . . with such differences as might suit and express each man's character and occupation, and partly his history.

  John Ruskin

  Character, Men, Differences

  John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill (1860). “The True and the Beautiful in Nature, Art, Morals and Religion: Selected from the Works of John Ruskin...”, p.142

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