#riches

If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity. ↗

— Sun Tzu

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Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#instrument #life #riches

My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

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I come from a district where the veterans are not the richest in the country. ↗

— Corrine Brown

#country #district #i #richest #veterans

The richest most meaningful stories are found in small places: made, carried, crafted, told, and retold by apparently unimportant people. ↗

— Louise Brown

#carried #crafted #found #important people #made

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#history #librarians #past #past history #people

Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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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. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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It's very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#american #american people #believe #difficult #earth

Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may. ↗

— William Cobbett

#esteem #find #goodness #may #men