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Money Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- The only wealth is life.
- The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.
- Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.
- If you give money, spend yourself with it.
- Be sure that you give the poor the aid they most need. If you give money, spend yourself with it, and do not merely abandon…
- The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue.
- It is difficult to begin without borrowing, but perhaps it is the most generous course thus to permit your fellowmen to have an interest in…
- When I meet a government which says to me, "Your money or your life," why should I be in haste to give it my money?
- Those things for which the most money is demanded are never the things which the student most wants. Tuition, for instance, is an important item…
- The value of any experience is measured, of course, not by the amount of money, but the amount of development we get out of it.
- Even the death of Friends will inspire us as much as their lives. They will leave consolation to the mourners, as the rich leave money…
- There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who…
- If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself. Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
- Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
- Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
- A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
- Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
- Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
- That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
- I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
- To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.
- Spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it, reminds me…
- If I choose to devote myself to certain labors which yield more real profit, though but little money, they may be inclined to look on…
- Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
- If you would get money as a writer or lecturer, you must be popular, which is to go down perpendicularly.... You are paid for being…
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