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Wealth Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Holding joy in your hands is described as the secret of fortune, louder than any pile of gold. A rush of thoughts and a purposeful pursuit, like making baskets or canals, are seen as true wealth, while clever calculations turn good fortune into real success.

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Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

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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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The secret of fortune is joy in our hands.

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People say law but they mean wealth.

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The advantage of riches remains with him who procured them, not with the heir.

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Prosperity is something the businessmen created for politicians to take credit for

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Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

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Nothing is great but the inexhaustible wealth of nature.

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A rush of thoughts is the only conceivable prosperity that can come to us.

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No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it.

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As we are, so we do; and as we do, so is it done to us; we are the builders of our…

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The amount of a man's wealth consists in the number of things he can do without.

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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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Honor and fortune exist for him who always recognizes the neighborhood of the great, always feels himself in the presence of high…

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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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There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will…

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It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have…

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The high prize of life, the crowning fortune of man, is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds…

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The socialism of our day has done good service in setting men to thinking how certain civilizing benefits, now only enjoyed by…

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He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected…

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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 thief steals from himself. The swindler swindles himself. For the real price is knowledge and virtue, whereof wealth and credit are…

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Men of extraordinary success, in their honest moments, have always sung, "Not unto us, not unto us." According to the faith of…

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“Men hear gladly of the power of blood or race. Everybody likes to know that his advantages cannot be attributed to air,…

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What a man does, that he has. What has he to do with hope or fear? In himself is his might. Let…

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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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I thought as I rode in the cold pleasant light of Sunday morning how silent & passive nature offers, every morn, her…

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“They should own who can administer, not they who hoard and conceal; not they who, the greater proprietors they are, are only…

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Shakespeare carries us to such a lofty strain of intelligent activity, as to suggest a wealth which beggars his own; and we…

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“That law of nature whereby everything climbs to higher platforms, and bodily vigor becomes mental and moral vigor. The bread he eats…

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It is contended that those who have been bred at Eton, Harrow, Rugby, and Westminster, that the public sentiment within each of…

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“Another point of economy is to look for seed of the same kind as you sow, and not to hope to buy…

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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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It is the delight of vulgar talent to dazzle and to bind the beholder. But true genius seeks to defend us from…

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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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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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“Your goodness must have some edge to it -- else it is none.”

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A man's fortunes are the fruit of his character. A man's friends are his magnetisms.

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The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius.

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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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Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may…

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

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In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern…

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The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a…

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