“Most poor people do not really aspire to end poverty; they merely aspire to escape it.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Faith, whereby especially Christ rules, sets the soul so high that it looks down on all other things as far below, as… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
There are no riches like the sweetness of content, nor poverty comparable to the want of patience. — Roger Chamberlain Copy Share Image
The riches of His free grace cause me daily to triumph over all the temptations of the wicked one, who is very… — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
Rome's riches are in too immediate juxtaposition. Under the lid of awful August heat, one moves dizzily from church to palace to… — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
The riches of a country are to be valued by the quantity of labor its inhabitants are able to purchase, and not… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Yet living and dying, honour and dishonour, pain and pleasure, riches and poverty, and so forth are equally the lot of good… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The inspired Scriptures make the clear distinction between false and true riches and make plain the reason why happiness is gained and… — Joseph Franklin Rutherford Copy Share Image
False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost… — Joseph Franklin Rutherford Copy Share Image
Philosophy, with the aid of experience, has at length banished the study of alchymy; and the present age, however desirous of riches,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Introversion, when embraced, is a wellspring of riches. It took me years to acknowledge this simple reality, to claim my home, and… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
Exclusiveness is a characteristic of recent riches, high society, and the skunk. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The poorest shack in which love prevails over a united family is of greater value to God and future humanity than any… — Rex D. Pinegar Copy Share Image
Wit will never make a man rich, but there are places where riches will always make a wit. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When the philosophers despised riches, it was because they had a mind to vindicate their own merit, and take revenge upon the… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
This is the mystery of the riches of divine grace for sinners; for by a wonderful exchange our sins are now not… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as… — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
Nin knew how much humans loved money, riches, and material things-though he never really could understand why. The more technologically advanced the… — Jess C Scott Copy Share Image
“I learned that ruling poor men's hands is nothing. Ruling men's money's a wedge in the world. But after I'd split it… — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
