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Riches Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
- Riches may enable us to confer favors, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.
- The only things in which we can be said to have any property are our actions. Our thoughts may be bad, yet produce no poison;…
- From the preponderance of talent, we may always infer the soundness and vigour of the commonwealth; but from the preponderance of riches, its dotage and…
- Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.
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- Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress. — Francis Bacon
- Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but… — Gamaliel Bailey
- Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men? — Natalie Clifford Barney
- A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself. — Henry Ward Beecher
- Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life. — Henry Ward Beecher
- Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them. — Napoleon Bonaparte
- To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented… — Akhenaton
- As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before. — Jean de la Bruyere
- Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits. — Edmund Burke
- A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles. — Richard Burton
- Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as… — Robert Burton
- A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches… — Thomas Carlyle