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 864 WEALTH WEALTH

WEALTH (See also {{sc|Possession)

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = There are, while human miseries abound, A thousand ways to waste superfluous wealth, Without one fool or flatterer at your board, Without one hour of sickness or disgust. Armstrong—Art of Preserving Health. Bk. II. L. 195. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 864 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = I have mental joys and mental health, Mental friends and mental wealth, I've a wife that I love and that loves me; I've all but riches bodily. Wm. Blake—Mammon. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 864 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Since all the riches of this world May be gifts from the devil and earthly kings, I should suspect that I worshipped the devil If I thanked my God for worldly things. Wm. Blake—Riches. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 864 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = But I have learned a thing or two; 1 know as sure as fate, When we lock up our lives for wealth, the gold key comes too late. Will Cakleton—The Ancient Miner's Story. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 864 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 15 | text = Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God Almighty has appointed this His universe to go. Carlyle—Past and Present. Ch. VI. IB Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community. Andrew Carnegie—Gospel of Wealth. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 864 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Las necedades del rico por sentencias pasan en el mundo. The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society. | author = Cervantes | work = Don Quixote. | place = II. 43. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 864 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 15 | text = Non esse cupidum, pecunia est; non esse emacem, vectigal est; contentum vero suis rebus esse, maxima sunt, certissinueque divitiae. Not to be avaricious is money; not to be fond of buying is a revenue; but to be content with our own is the greatest and most certain wealth of all. Cicero—Paradoxa. 6. 3. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 864 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms. Emerson—Wealth. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 864 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover. Emerson—Wealth. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 864 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = If your Riches are yours, why don't you take them with you to t'other world? Benj. Franklin—Poor Richard. (1751) | topic = | page = 864 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Who hath not heard the rich complain Of surfeits, and corporeal pain? He barr'd from every use of wealth, Envies the ploughman's strength and health. Gay—Fables. The Cookmaid, Turnspit, and Ox. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 864 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = The ideal social state is not that in which each gets an equal amount of wealth, but in which each gets in proportion to his contribution to the general stock. Henry George—Social Problems. Ch. VI. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 864 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = And to hie him home, at evening's close, To sweet repast, and calm repose. 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. Gray—Ode on the Pleasure Arising from Vicissitude. L. 87. Last two lines said to have been added by the Rev. William Mason, Gray's biographer. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 864 }}