Cheapness Quote by Ezra Pound

“Hence the sage puts away excessive effort, extravagance, and easy indulgence.”

— Lao Tzu

“What we obtain too cheaply, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put…

— Thomas Payne 1776

“Therefore the sage, while he never does what is great, is able on that account to accomplish the greatest things.”

— Lao Tzu

“On the Path of the Wise there is probably no danger more deadly, no poison more pernicious, no seduction more subtle than Spiritual Pride;…

— Aleister Crowley

“True sages are eternal students.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Then said Good-Will, "Alas, poor Pliable! Is the celestial glory of so little value to him that he considers it unworthy of his hazarding…

— John Bunyan

“Do not malign the words of a sage even if they seem trivial, for they contain the loftiest wisdom.”

— Aharon Feldman

“When I Consider How My Light Is Spent When I consider how my light is spent, Ere half my days in this dark world…

— John Milton

“The best things in life are beyond money; their price is agony and sweat and devotion”

— Robert A. Heinlein

“Truly they who know still know nothing if the strength of love be not theirs; for the true sage is not he who sees,…

— Maurice Maeterlinck

“when God in his sheer mercy and without any merit of mine has given me such unspeakable riches, shall I not freely, joyously, wholeheartedly,…

— Roland H. Bainton

“You may be sure that we are as well aware as you of the difficulty of contending against your power and fortune, unless the…

— Thucydides