Showing posts with label wealth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wealth. Show all posts

Sunday, July 24, 2022

Post #3134

The wealth of the soul is the only true wealth.
—Lucian 

Sunday, September 26, 2021

Post #3091

Wealth is nothing in itself; it is not useful but when it departs from us.
—Samuel Johnson

Sunday, August 29, 2021

Post #3087

It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness.
—Thomas Jefferson

Sunday, February 07, 2021

Post #3058

 I esteem that wealth which is given to the worthy, and which is day by day enjoyed; the rest is a reserve for one knoweth not whom.
—Hitopadesa

Sunday, June 28, 2020

Post #3025

He that will not permit his wealth to do any good to others while he is living, prevents it from doing any good to himself when he is dead ; and by an egotism that is suicidal, and has a double edge, cuts himself off from the truest pleasure here, and the highest happiness hereafter.
—Charles Caleb Colton

Tuesday, February 06, 2018

Post #2507

Riches are gotten with pain, kept with care, and lost with grief. The cares of riches lie heavier upon a good man than the inconveniences of an honest poverty.
—Sir Roger L'Estrange

Monday, July 03, 2017

Post #2371

He that is well does not know how rich he is.
Better a healthy beggar, than a sick king.
—German Proverb

Friday, May 01, 2015

Post #1805

Gold and diamonds are not riches.
—John Ruskin

Thursday, April 30, 2015

Post #1804

Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Post #1793

Rank and riches are chains of gold, but still they are chains.
—Giovanni Ruffini

Tuesday, December 09, 2014

Post #1702

You ask credit
I no give
You get mad
I give credit
You no pay
I get mad
Better you get mad.

Friday, August 29, 2014

Post #1630

Health is the greatest gift, contentedness the best riches.
—Dhammapada

Thursday, May 29, 2014

Post #1559

Wealth is not acquired, as many persons suppose, by fortunate speculatious and splendid enterprises, but by the daily practice of industry, frugality, and economy. He who relies upon these means will rarely be found destitute, and he who relies upon any other will generally become bankrupt.
—Francis Wayland

Friday, February 21, 2014

Post #1485

Of riches it is not necessary to write the praise. Let it, however, be remembered that he who has money to spare has it always in his power to benefit others, and of such powers a good man must always be desirous.
—Samuel Johnson

Monday, October 28, 2013

Post #1387

No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes him rich. He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
—Henry Ward Beecher

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Saturday, March 03, 2012

Post #880

The eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. If all  but myself were blind, I should want neither fine clothes, fine houses, nor fine furniture.
—Benjamin Franklin

Saturday, October 01, 2011

Post #727

A man is rich in proportion to the things he can afford to let alone.
—Henry David Thoreau

Saturday, September 03, 2011

Post #700

Each person is born to one possession which outvalues all others - his last breath.
—Mark Twain

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Post #320

Health is better than wealth.
—Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732

The Penalty of Leadership

In every field of human endeavor, he that is first must perpetually live in the white light of publicity. Whether the leadership be vested in a man or in a manufactured product, emulation and envy are ever at work. In art, in literature, in music, in industry, the reward and the punishment are always the same. The reward is widespread recognition; the punishment, fierce denial and detraction. When a man’s work becomes a standard for the whole world, it also becomes a target for the shafts of the envious few. If his work be mediocre, he will be left severely alone – if he achieve a masterpiece, it will set a million tongues a -wagging. Jealousy does not protrude its forked tongue at the artist who produces a commonplace painting. Whatsoever you write, or paint, or play, or sing, or build, no one will strive to surpass or to slander you unless your work be stamped with the seal of genius. Long, long after a great work or a good work has been done, those who are disappointed or envious, continue to cry out that it cannot be done. Spiteful little voices in the domain of art were raised against our own Whistler as a mountebank, long after the big world had acclaimed him its greatest artistic genius. Multitudes flocked to Bayreuth to worship at the musical shrine of Wagner, while the little group of those whom he had dethroned and displaced argued angrily that he was no musician at all. The little world continued to protest that Fulton could never build a steamboat, while the big world flocked to the river banks to see his boat steam by. The leader is assailed because he is a leader, and the effort to equal him is merely added proof of that leadership. Failing to equal or to excel, the follower seeks to depreciate and to destroy – but only confirms once more the superiority of that which he strives to supplant. There is nothing new in this. It is as old as the world and as old as human passions – envy, fear, greed, ambition, and the desire to surpass. And it all avails nothing. If the leader truly leads, he remains – the leader. Master-poet, master-painter, master-workman, each in his turn is assailed, and each holds his laurels through the ages. That which is good or great makes itself known, no matter how loud the clamor of denial. That which deserves to live — lives.
written by Theodore F. MacManus

A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.

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