Instruments Quote by Benjamin Whichcote Download Open image “Riches are but a means, or instrument; and the virtue of an instrument lies in its use.” — Benjamin Whichcote ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Instrument Virtue Instruments Lying Mean Means Instrument Money Rich Riches Riches Means Use Virtue Virtue Instrument Wealth
Riches are a blessing or a curse to a man according as he has or has not a heart to make good use of… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
Riches get their value from the mind of the possessor; they are blessings to those who know how to use them, and curses to… — Terence Copy Share Image
Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Riches are a blessing only to those who make them a blessing to others. — Marianette Carbito Copy Share Image
What are riches - grandeur - health itself, to the luxury of a pure conscience, the health of the soul; - and what the… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
Riches are of no value in themselves; their use is discovered only in that which they procure. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Riches is nothing in the face of the Lord, for He can see into the heart. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Riches are oft by guilt and baseness earn'd; Or dealt by chance to shield a lucky knave, Or throw a cruel sunshine on a… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
The desire for riches is more sharpened by their use than by their need. Pleasing all: a mark that can never be aimed at… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Truth is not only a man's ornament but his instrument; it is the great man's glory, and the poor man's stock: a man's truth… — Benjamin Whichcote Copy Share Image
He that repents is angry with himself; I need not be angry with him. — Benjamin Whichcote Copy Share Image
Take away the self-conceited, and there will be elbowroom in the world. — Benjamin Whichcote Copy Share Image
Let us all so live as we shall wish we had lived when we come to die; for that only is well, that ends… — Benjamin Whichcote Copy Share Image
The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel. — Benjamin Whichcote Copy Share Image
We are made for one another, and each is to be a supply to his neighbor. — Benjamin Whichcote Copy Share Image
He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it. — Benjamin Whichcote Copy Share Image
Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music made. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
The only thing I try to watch carefully is that I never lose the love for the instrument. That's also why I decided against… — Nils Frahm Copy Share Image
It's difficult for people to come to the understanding that only a small minority of the people ever really get the word about life,… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that. — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
Like a child exploring the attic of an old house on a rainy day, discovering a trunk full of treasure and then calling all… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
The concept of humanity is an especially useful ideological instrument of imperialist expansion, and in its ethical-humanitarian form it is a specific vehicle of… — Carl Schmitt Copy Share Image
Kenny G, I have to be grateful to him for proving that the instrument can be played all different kinds of ways. — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
Mechanical instruments, potentially a vehicle of rational human purposes, are scarcely a blessing when they enable the gossip of the village idiot and the… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Local and state governments have outrun the federal government. The EPA has served notice that it will enact a rule requiring CO2 reductions by… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
From the 1990s onward, the financial sector created a vast array of instruments designed to separate investors from their money, financial derivatives of an… — John L. Casti Copy Share Image
[The Community's] crosses and trials give me confidence. But I derive my hope above all, and most especially, from our utter incapacity, for it… — Theodore Guerin Copy Share Image