Wealth Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton

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Charles Caleb Colton approaches wealth with a dry wit that cuts through pretension. Across twenty‑five observations he mixes humor and sharp observation, inviting readers to smile while they reconsider the role of riches in life.

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Our wealth is often a snare to ourselves, and always a temptation to others.

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Wealth is a relative thing since those who have little and want less are richer than those who have much but want…

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Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much…

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Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.

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The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.

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“Wealth... is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much but wants…

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He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.

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Riches may enable us to confer favors, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

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The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health and power.

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There are three kinds of power,--wealth, strength, and talent; but as old age always weakens, often destroys, the two latter, the aged…

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The greatest and most amiable privilege which the rich enjoy over the poor is that which they exercise the least--the privilege of…

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Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it be a far…

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The wealth is ultimately just a relative thing. As a person with little money and little more needs to rich guys money…

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If rich, it is easy enough to conceal our wealth; but, if poor, it is not quite so easy to conceal our…

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To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not…

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Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness,…

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It is with honesty in one particular as with wealth,--those that have the thing care less about the credit of it than…

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Men pursue riches under the idea that their possession will set them at ease, and above the world. But the law of…

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Our incomes should be like our shoes, if too small, they will gall and pinch us, but if too large, they will…

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It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave, than to expend it, like a gentleman.

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Fortune, like other females, prefers a lover to a master, and submits with impatience to control; but he that wooes her with…

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Fortune has been considered the guardian divinity of fools; and, on this score, she has been accused of blindness; but it should…

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Those that will not permit their wealth to do any good for others. . . cut themselves off from the truest pleasure…

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We make a goddess of Fortune ... and place her in the highest heaven. But it is not fortune that is exalted…

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That which we acquire with the most difficulty we retain the longest; as those who have earned a fortune are usually more…

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A beautiful woman, if poor, should use double circumspection; for her beauty will tempt others, her poverty herself.

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To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than…

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It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or…

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Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error. Where one has been saved…

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None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.

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Mental pleasures never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by reputation, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment.

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Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate, the nearer we arrive unto it.

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Heroism, self-denial, and magnanimity, in all instances where they do not spring from a principle of religion, are but splendid altars on which we…

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We ought not to be over-anxious to encourage innovation in cases of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over…

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We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those who have differed

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