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Money Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

91 Money quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Emerson points out that money can be a cheap way to buy silence, not true help. He also says a dollar gains worth when it supports learning and virtue, not just buying things. Finally, he warns that chasing vanity spends money without giving real value.

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Ah, if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches.

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If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?

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Money often costs too much.

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The world is his who has money to go over it.

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People say law but they mean wealth.

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The first wealth is health.

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A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence.

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He only is rich who owns the day.

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Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

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The whole value of the dime is in knowing what to do with it.

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Men such as they are, very naturally seek money or power; and power because it is as good as money.

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Nothing is great but the inexhaustible wealth of nature.

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Money often costs too much, and power and pleasure are not cheap.

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We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

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A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

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Persons are fine things, but they cost so much! for thee I must pay me.

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Let not the tie be mercenary, though the service is measured in money. Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life…

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He is only rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy, or demon who possesses such power as…

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“Nothing is rich but the inexhaustible wealth of nature. She shows us only surfaces, but she is a million fathoms deep.”

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The art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being…

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Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

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Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving,…

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Harder still it has proved to rule the dragon Money... A whole generation adopted false principles, and went to their graves in…

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Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was…

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It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor…

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The magnanimous know verywell that they who give time, or money, or shelter, to the strangerso it be done for love, and…

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We commonly say that the rich man can speak the truth, can afford honesty, can afford independence of opinion and action;and thatis…

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A man is the prisoner of his power. A topical memory makes him an almanac; a talent for debate, disputant; skill to…

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Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching. The simplest utterances are worthiest to bewritten, yet are…

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To be rich is to have a ticket of admission to the masterworks and chief men of each race. It is to…

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Let the amelioration in our laws of property proceed from the concession of the rich, not from the grasping of the poor.…

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The true thrift is always to spend on the higher plane; to invest and invest, with keener avarice, that he may spend…

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Pride can go without domestics, without fine clothes, can live in a house with two rooms, can eat potato, purslain, beans, lyed…

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The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity…

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“Money is representative, and follows the nature and fortunes of the owner...The farmer is covetous of his dollar, and with reason. It…

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“That second man has his own way of looking at things; asks himself which debt must I pay first, the debt to…

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“One man thinks justice consists in paying debts, and has no measure in his abhorrence of another who is very remiss in…

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In my dealing with my child, my Latin and Greek, my accomplishments and my money stead me nothing; but as much soul…

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Eyes are bold as lions,--roving, running, leaping, here and there, far and near. They speak all languages. They wait for no introduction;…

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“The virtues are economists, but some of the vices are also...Pride is handsome, economical; pride eradicates so many vices, letting none subsist…

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A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.

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No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.

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I am; therefore, I had nothing better to do than to think.

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