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• There is a science of getting rich, and it is an exact science, like algebra or arithmetic. There are certain laws which govern the process of acquiring riches, and once these laws are learned and obeyed by anyone, that person will get rich with mathematical certainty.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Law, Arithmetic, Process

  Wallace D. Wattles, Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Louis M. Grafe, N. H. Moos, John McDonald “Get Rich In Spite of Yourself Collection - An "If You Can Count to Four..." Reference”, Lulu.com

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• Wishing will not bring riches. But desiring riches with a state of mind that becomes an obsession, then planning definite ways and means to acquire riches, and backing those plans with persistence which does not recognize failure, will bring riches.

  Napoleon Hill

  Mean, Persistence, Mind

  Napoleon Hill (2007). “Your Magic Power to be Rich!”, p.27, Penguin

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• When we are generous in welcoming people and sharing something with them-some food, a place in our homes, our time-not only do we no longer remain poor: we are enriched. I am well aware that when someone needing food knocks at your door, you always find a way of sharing food; as the proverb says, one can always 'add more water to the beans'! Is it possible to add more water to the beans?...Always?...And you do so with love, demonstrating that true riches consist not in materials things, but in the heart!

  Pope Francis

  Home, Heart, Doors

  Pope Francis (2017). “The Works of Mercy”, p.53, Orbis Books

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• The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires others who attain them, while undervaluing the truly precious thing in life.

  Sigmund Freud

  Life, Men, Atheism

  Sigmund Freud (1930). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, p.1, Courier Dover Publications

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• The prospect of penury in age is so gloomy and terrifying that every man who looks before him must resolve to avoid it; and it must be avoided generally by the science of sparing. For, though in every age there are some who, by bold adventures, or by favorable accidents, rise suddenly to riches, yet it is dangerous to indulge hopes of such rare events; and the bulk of mankind must owe their affluence to small and gradual profits, below which their expense must be resolutely reduced.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Adventure, Men, Rare Events

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• You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.

  Brian Tracy

  Motivational, Powerful, Frustration

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Apr 16, 2014

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• What is Fortune, what is Fame?
  Futile gold and phantom name-
  Riches buried in a cave,
  Glory written on a grave.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Names, Gold, Caves

  Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The works of Henry Van Dyke”

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• As riches increase and accumulate in few hands, as luxury prevails in society, virtue will be in a greater degree considered as only a graceful appendage of wealth, and the tendency of things will be to depart from the republican standard. This is the real disposition of human nature; it is what neither the honorable member nor myself can correct. It is a common misfortunate that awaits our State constitution, as well as all others.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Real, Hands, Luxury

  Alexander Hamilton, John Church Hamilton (1850). “The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Miscellanies, 1774-1789: A full vindication; The farmer refuted; Quebec bill; Resolutions in Congress; Letters from Phocion; New-York Legislature, etc”, p.443

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• He is the wise man who has by perfect living gained the instinct of rightness by which he guides himself, whether in thought or action, who has found that centre of balance which is always over his point of contact with circumstances. He is the man whom Nature pours the riches of all her instincts.

  Nilakanta Sri Ram

  Wise, Spiritual, Men

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• Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men but from doing something worthwhile.

  Wilfred Grenfell

  Inspirational, Happiness, Real

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• If I might be the means of saving one soul I should prefer it to all the riches and honor in the world

  Asahel Nettleton

  Mean, Soul, Honor

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• Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none

  David Brainerd

  Greatness, Sensual, Flow

  David Brainerd (1822). “Memoirs of the Rev. David Brainerd: Missionary to the Indians on the Borders of New-York, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania: Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary”, p.122

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• The richest person in the world - in fact. All the riches in the world - couldn't provide you with anything like the endless, incredible loot available at your local library. You can measure the awareness, the breadth and the wisdom of a civilization, a nation, a people by the priority given to preserving these repositories of all that we are, all that we were, or will be.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Civilization, People, Priorities

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• Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.

  A. A. Gill

  Sports, Country, Kids

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• Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Wisdom, Honesty, Integrity

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• God in his omnipotence could not give more, in His wisdom He knew not how to give more, in His riches He had not more to give, than the Eucharist.

  Saint Augustine

  Omnipotence, Giving, Eucharist

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• Obviously, despite hard work and heroic efforts, many dreams don't come true. But if we don't dare to dream and then throw muscle, heart, and soul into making the dream come true, then WoW Projects-and all of the emotional, intellectual, spiritual, and financial riches that they bring will surely NOT be our lot in life!

  Tom Peters

  Dream, Spiritual, Life Changing

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• As evangelical Christians we have tended to relegate art to the very fringe of life. The rest of human life we feel is more important. Despite our constant talk about the Lordship of Christ, we have narrowed its scope to a very small area of reality.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Art, Taken

  "Art & the Bible: Two Essays".

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• Give me, Lord, neither poverty nor riches.

  William Cobbett

  Giving, Poverty, Lord

  William Cobbett (2011). “A Year's Residence in the United States of America: Treating of the Face of the Country, the Climate, the Soil... of the Expenses of Housekeeping... of the Manners and Customs of the People; And, of the Institutions of the Country...”, p.63, Cambridge University Press

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• As long as civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. Our riches will leave us sick; there will be bitterness in our laughter, and our wine will burn our mouth. Only that good profits which we can taste with all doors open, and which serves all men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Laughter, Wine, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.253, Penguin

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• The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever.

  Plutarch

  Strong, Wine, Men

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• The poor long for riches, the rich long for heaven, but the wise long for a state of tranquility.

  Rama Swami

  Wise, Wisdom, Peace

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• Democracy is nothing but the Tyranny of Majorities, the most abominable tyranny of all, for it is not based on the authority of a religion, not upon the nobility of a race, not on the merits of talents and of riches. It merely rests upon numbers and hides behind the name of the people.

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Numbers, Race, Names

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• Lack of money is the root of of all evil.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Money, Roots, Greatest Wealth

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• A tax is always a sacrifice which the government demands of individuals.While it only lessens every one's personal enjoyments, it only shifts expenses from one to another.But when it encroaches on productive consumption it diminishes public riches.

  Antoine Destutt de Tracy

  Philosophy, Sacrifice, Government

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