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Money Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as…
- Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.
- The world is his who has money to go over it.
- Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?
- Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?
- If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?
- Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed.
- Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.
- Harder still it has proved to rule the dragon Money... A whole generation adopted false principles, and went to their graves in the belief they…
- The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who…
- Money is of no value; it cannot spend itself. All depends on the skill of the spender.
- He needs no library, for he has not done thinking; no church, for he is himself a prophet; no statute book, for he hath the…
- The only money of God is God. He pays never with any thing less, or any thing else.
- A man cannot free himself by any self-denying ordinances, neither by water nor potatoes, nor by violent possibilities, by refusing to swear, refusing to pay…
- A bullet had found him, his blood ran out as he cried. No money could save him, so he laid down and died. Ooh, what…
- Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
- A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
- A man in debt is so far a slave.
- Money often costs too much.
- The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
- I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen's novels at so high a rate, which seem to me vulgar in tone,…
- Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of…
- Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.
- A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence.
- We take care of our health; we lay up money; we make our roof tight, and our clothing sufficient; but who provides wisely that he…
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- There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise. — Mary Kay Ash
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- A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. — Jane Austen
- Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does. — Jane Austen