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“Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.”

Life Made Life Is Pleasure Poor Rich Aim Possession Noble Subservient Ignoble

Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

“Our life a harp is, with unnumbered strings, And tones and symphonies; but our poor skill Some shallow notes from its great music brings.”

Life Poor Our Lives Skills Notes Tone Strings Shallow Symphony Great Music Harps

Book:Songs, Legends and Ballads

Source: Songs, Legends and Ballads

“Life is a charity ball given by the leaders of society. A few dance, get their charity's worth to the last penny; and the poor stand outside the gate and watch with hungry eyes the glint of jewels in the warm air. Then comes the lackey Death, and he says: "Madam and my Master, your carriage waits." So they go away into the dark in the carriage of the black plumes, and the dancing continues.”

Life Eye Lasts Life Is Given Waiting Black Dark Poor Leader Watches Air Masters Balls Dancing Charity Warm Hungry Gates Going Away Standing Out Jewels Pennies Carriages Lackeys Hungry Eyes

Author:Austin O'Malley

“Give me simplicity, that I may live, So live and like, that I may know Thy ways, Know them and practise them: then shall I give For this poor wreath, give Thee a crown of praise.”

Knows Way Life Giving May Poor Give Me Praise Simplicity Thee Crowns Practise Wreaths

Book:The temple, sacred poems and private ejaculations. [With] The synagogue

Source: The temple, sacred poems and private ejaculations. [With] The synagogue

“I knew the poor, I knew the hideous death they die, when famine lays its bleak hand on the door; I knew the rich, sated with merriment, who yet are sad.”

Life Hands Dies Poor Knowledge Rich Doors Experience Lays Famine Hideous Bleak Merriment Sated

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“... not doing what we love in the name of greed is very poor management of our lives.”

Life Names Poor Our Lives Management Greed Investing Investment Success Poor Management

Author:Warren Buffett

“What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.”