Opulent Quotes
17 quotes by 15 authors
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The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respected Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all Nations and Religions;…
— George Washington
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In this world it is possible to achieve great material wealth, to live an opulent life. But a life built upon those things alone leaves…
— Cesar Chavez
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Human prosperity never rests but always craves more, till blown up with pride it totters and falls. From the opulent mansions pointed at by all…
— Aeschylus
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When Paul was taken in chains from his filthy Roman dungeon and beheaded at the order of the opulent madman Nero, two representatives of humanity…
— Randy Alcorn
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The primary function of government is to protect the minority of the opulent from the majority of the poor.
— James Madison
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The history of prevailing status quos shows decay and decadence infecting the opulent materialism of the Haves. The spiritual life of the Haves is a…
— Saul
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Landholders ought to have a share in the government to support these invaluable interests and check the other many. They ought to be so constituted…
— James Madison
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An excessive indulgence in the pleasures of social life constitutes the great interests of a luxuriant and opulent age.
— Isaac D'Israeli
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The other classes of which society was composed were, first, freemen, owners of small portions of land, independent, though they sometimes voluntarily became the vassals…
— Thomas Bulfinch
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In democratic countries, however opulent a man is supposed to be, he is almost always discontented with his fortune, because he finds that he is…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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She was one of those people who was born for the greatness of a single love, for exaggerated hatred, for apocalyptic vengance, and for the…
— Isabel Allende
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Structural dissatisfaction: Returning to circumstances that once pleased you, after having experienced a more thrilling or opulent way of life, and finding that you can…
— Jennifer Egan
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As soon as a man recognizes that he has drifted into age, he gets reminiscent. He wants to talk and talk; and not about the…
— Mark Twain
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When I first began visiting West Germany in the early 1980s, I was startled by the contrast between Birmingham, where I went to school, and…
— Luke Harding
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The Polo Lounge is like a fine old mink coat: opulent, dignified and warm.
— Bryan Q. Miller
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The more opulent a temple, the more miserable is the spirit that lives in it.
— Jean-Paul Malfatti
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Power must be in the hands of the wealth of the nation, those who have sympathy for property owners and their rights, and who understand…
— James Madison
Who Wrote These Opulent Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 17 Opulent Quotes as follows: