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01c. 1751 AD

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

Oliver Goldsmith / quote

02c. 1751 AD

Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. Princes and lords may flourish or may fade,— A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied.

Oliver Goldsmith / quote

03c. 1751 AD

His best companions, innocence and health; And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.

Oliver Goldsmith / quote

04c. 1751 AD

A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year.

Oliver Goldsmith / quote

05c. 1751 AD

And what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep, A shade that follows wealth or fame, And leaves the wretch to weep?

Oliver Goldsmith / quote

06c. 1765 AD

I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.

William Cowper / quote

07c. 1765 AD

Give what thou canst, without Thee we are poor; And with Thee rich, take what Thou wilt away.

William Cowper / quote

08c. 1765 AD

He that holds fast the golden mean, And lives contentedly between The little and the great, Feels not the wants that pinch the poor, Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door.

William Cowper / quote

09c. 1801 AD

Breathes there the man with soul so dead Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd As home his footsteps he hath turn'd From wandering on a foreign strand? If such there breathe, go, mark him well! For him no minstrel raptures swell; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim,— Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonour'd, and unsung.

Sir Walter Scott / quote

10c. 1815 AD

Rich and rare were the gems she wore, And a bright gold ring on her wand she bore.

Thomas Moore / quote

11c. 1806 AD

Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe When tipp'd with amber, mellow, rich, and ripe; Like other charmers, wooing the caress More dazzlingly when daring in full dress; Yet thy true lovers more admire by far Thy naked beauties—give me a cigar!

Lord Byron / quote

12c. 1814 AD

What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine, The wealth of seas, the spoils of war? They sought a faith's pure shrine.

Felicia D. Hemans / quote

13c. 1829 AD

The chief-justice was rich, quiet, and infamous.

Thomas B. Macaulay / quote

14c. 1809 AD

Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.

Alfred Tennyson / quote

15c. 1809 AD

O Love! they die in yon rich sky, They faint on hill or field or river: Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow forever and forever. Blow, bugle, blow! set the wild echoes flying! And answer, echoes, answer! dying, dying, dying.

Alfred Tennyson / quote

16c. 1855 AD

There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one, Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on.

James Russell Lowell / quote

17c. 1852 AD

Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die, But leave us still our old nobility.

Francis W. Bourdillon / quote

18c. 1852 AD

Private credit is wealth; public honour is security. The feather that adorns the royal bird supports its flight; strip him of his plumage, and you fix him to the earth.

Francis W. Bourdillon / quote

19c. 530 BC

No one goes to Hades with all his immense wealth.

Theognis / maxim

20c. 445 BC

The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.

Euripides / quote

21Undated

A good reputation is more valuable than money.

Publius Syrus / maxim

22Undated

Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publius Syrus / maxim

23Undated

No good man ever grew rich all at once.

Publius Syrus / maxim

24c. 83 AD

Themistocles said that a man's discourse was like to a rich Persian carpet, the beautiful figures and patterns of which can be shown only by spreading and extending it out; when it is contracted and folded up, they are obscured and lost.

Plutarch / quote