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“No, I have no desire for riches. Honest poverty and a conscience, torpid through virtuous inaction, are more to me than corner lots and praise.”

Desire Poverty Honest Conscience Praise Prosperity Corners Riches Virtuous Inaction

Book:Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches

Source: Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches

“To crave wealth and honor, to demand power, to pile up riches, to gather all those vanities which seem to make for pomp and empty display, that is our furious passion and our unbounded desire.On the other hand, we fear and abhor poverty, obscurity, and humility, and we seek to avoid them by all possible means.”

Mean Hands Seems Desire Passion Wealth Poverty Humility Honor Demand Empty Riches Vanity Display Crave Obscurity Furious

Book:Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life

Source: Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life

“For, as I said a little way back, perfect souls are in no way repelled by trials, but rather desire them and pray for them and love them. They are like soldiers: the more wars there are, the better they are pleased, because they hope to emerge from them with the greater riches.”

Way Littles Said War Soul Desire Perfect Greater Praying And Love Soldier Riches Trials

Book:Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila

Source: Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila

“Increasing wealth is attended by care and by the desire of greater increase.”

Care Desire Wealth Greater Increase Riches

Author:Horace

“Contentment produces, in some measure, all those effects which the alchemist usually ascribes to what he calls the philosopher's stone; and if it does not bring riches, it does the same thing by banishing the desire for them.”

Ifs Doe Desire Effects Produce Stones Philosopher Riches Contentment Alchemist

Book:Essays, Moral and Humorous. Also Essays on Imagination and Taste

Source: Essays, Moral and Humorous. Also Essays on Imagination and Taste

“Riches are valuable at all times, and to all men, because they always purchase pleasures such as men are accustomed to and desire; nor can anything restrain or regulate the love of money but a sense of honor and virtue, which, if it be not nearly equal at all times, will naturally abound most in ages of knowledge and refinement.”

Ifs Men Age Desire Pleasure Virtue Honor Equal Valuable Riches All Time Accustomed Refinement Love Of Money

Book:Essays and treatises on several subjects in two volumes: Essays, moral, political, and literacy

Source: Essays and treatises on several subjects in two volumes: Essays, moral, political, and literacy

“The smallness of our desires may contribute reasonably to our wealth.”

May Desire Wealth Riches Smallness

Author:William Cobbett

“there are times when the one thing you haven't counts more than all the riches that may be yours.”

May Desire One Thing Havens Riches

Author:Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett

“The desire for riches is simply the capacity for a larger life seeking fulfillment; every desire is the effort of an unexpressed possibility come into action.”

Action Desire Effort Possibility Capacity Seeking Riches Fulfillment

Book:The Science of Wallace D. Wattles: The Science of Being Well, The Science of Getting Rich & The Science of Being Great – Complete Trilogy: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of How to Promote Yourself, New Science of Living and Healing, Hellfire Harrison, A New Christ, How to Get What You Want and Jesus The Man and His Work

Source: The Science of Wallace D. Wattles: The Science of Being Well, The Science of Getting Rich & The Science of Being Great – Complete Trilogy: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of How to Promote Yourself, New Science of Living and Healing, Hellfire Harrison, A New Christ, How to Get What You Want and Jesus The Man and His Work

“The contempt of riches in the philosophers was a concealed desire of revenging on fortune the injustice done to their merit, by despising the good she denied them.”

Done Desire Fortune Injustice Philosopher Riches Merit Contempt Denied Concealed

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Lack of desire is the greatest riches.”

Desire Wealth Riches

Author:Seneca the Younger