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01c. 1640 AD

For what is worth in anything But so much money as 't will bring?

Samuel Butler / quote

02c. 1640 AD

For truth is precious and divine,— Too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

Samuel Butler / quote

03c. 1640 AD

With books and money plac'd for show Like nest-eggs to make clients lay, And for his false opinion pay.

Samuel Butler / quote

04c. 1643 AD

Rich with the spoils of Nature.

Sir Thomas Browne / quote

05c. 1641 AD

High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat, by merit rais'd To that bad eminence.

John Milton / quote

06c. 1641 AD

Though with those streams he no resemblance hold, Whose foam is amber and their gravel gold; His genuine and less guilty wealth t' explore, Search not his bottom, but survey his shore.

Sir John Denham / quote

07c. 1666 AD

Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure,— Sweet is pleasure after pain.

John Dryden / quote

08c. 1716 AD

Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.

Alexander Pope / quote

09c. 1716 AD

Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace; If not, by any means get wealth and place.

Alexander Pope / quote

10c. 1716 AD

A wealthy priest, but rich without a fault.

Alexander Pope / quote

11c. 1716 AD

Base wealth preferring to eternal praise.

Alexander Pope / quote

12c. 1716 AD

To heal divisions, to relieve th' opprest; In virtue rich; in blessing others, blest.

Alexander Pope / quote

13c. 1716 AD

Our fruitless labours mourn, And only rich in barren fame return.

Alexander Pope / quote

14c. 1748 AD

Remember that time is money.

Benjamin Franklin / quote

15c. 1746 AD

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

Samuel Johnson / quote

16c. 1746 AD

All this [wealth] excludes but one evil,—poverty.

Samuel Johnson / quote

17c. 1746 AD

As the Spanish proverb says, "He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him," so it is in travelling,—a man must carry knowledge with him if he would bring home knowledge.

Samuel Johnson / quote

18c. 1746 AD

The potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.

Samuel Johnson / quote

19c. 1734 AD

I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.

Edward Moore / quote

20c. 1743 AD

The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour. The paths of glory lead but to the grave.

Thomas Gray / quote

21c. 1743 AD

But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page, Rich with the spoils of time, did ne'er unroll; Chill penury repress'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul.

Thomas Gray / quote

22c. 1743 AD

Rich windows that exclude the light, And passages that lead to nothing.

Thomas Gray / quote

23c. 1743 AD

From toil he wins his spirits light, From busy day the peaceful night; Rich, from the very want of wealth, In heaven's best treasures, peace and health.

Thomas Gray / quote

24c. 1751 AD

Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails, And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

Oliver Goldsmith / quote