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“This is so rich a country that luxury has developed at the expense of necessities, and even the destitute partake of the luxury. We are the rich country of the world, like Dives at the feast. We must try hard, we must study to be poor like Lazarus at the gate, who was taken into Abraham's bosom.”

World Trying Country Hard Poor Study Rich Taken Luxury Gates Expenses Consumerism Bosoms Abraham Overconsumption Destitute Rich Countries Countries Of The World Lazarus

Author:Dorothy Day

“If one had taken what is necessary to cover one's needs and had left the rest to those who are in need, no one would be rich, no one would be poor, no one would be in need.”

Ifs Needs Would Be Left Poor Rich Taken Minimalism Minimalist

Author:Saint Basil

“It's an irony that growing inequality could mean more money for philanthropy. In the US, quite a few of the ultra-rich have taken to heart the 19th century industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie's comment that it's a disgrace to die wealthy.”

Heart Mean Dies Rich Taken Growing Century Inequality Irony Wealthy Comment More Money Philanthropy Disgrace 19th Century Andrew Philanthropist Ultras Carnegie

Author:Geoff Mulgan

“People think that being famous is just about having your picture taken all the time and being rich rich rich, and you know what?... They're absolutely right.”

People Thinking Knows Rich Taken Being Famous Being Rich Picture Taken

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“Do you ask why I am unwilling to marry a rich wife? It is because I am unwilling to be taken to husband by my wife. The mistress of the house should be subordinate to her husband, for in no other way, Priscus, will the wife and husband be on an equality.”

Way Should Asks House Rich Taken Wife Husband My Wife Mistress Unwilling Husband And Wife Subordinates

Author:Martial

“Rich Mullins was the uneasy conscience of Christian music. He didn't live like a star. He'd taken a vow of poverty so that what he earned could be used to help others.”

Helping Christian Used Stars Poverty Rich Taken Conscience Helping Others Vow Uneasy Christian Music

Author:Amy Grant

“Education must be taken out of the hands of rich illiterates, third rate politicians, and put where it belongs: in the care of scholars. At present the whole University system is rotten to the core, and an appalling waste of time, energy and money.”

Whole Hands Care Energy Education Rich Taken Politician Waste Thirds Rate University Core Wasting Time Scholar Rotten

Book:Letters of Katherine Anne Porter

Source: Letters of Katherine Anne Porter

“Nothing is arbitrary, nothing is insulated in beauty. It depends forever on the necessary and the useful. The plumage of the bird, the mimic plumage of the insect, has a reason for its rich colors in the constitution of the animal. Fitness is so inseparable an accompaniment of beauty, that it, has been taken for it.”

Has Beens Reason Animal Beauty Forever Rich Taken Color Depends Bird Constitution Insects Arbitrary Inseparable

Book:The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Not all the pride of beauty; Those eyes, that tell us what the sun is made of; Those lips, whose touch is to be bought with life; Those hills of driven snow, which seen are felt: All these possessed are nought, but as they are The proof, the substance of an inward passion, And the rich plunder of a taken heart.”

Heart Made Eye Passion Felt Sun Rich Taken Pride Lips Driven Proof Snow Hills Substance Possessed Inward Plunder

Book:The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins

Source: The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins

“Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes: it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given, something else is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts.”

Art Given Sides Loses Rich Taken Gains Instinct Acquire Civilized

Book:Self-Reliance and Other Essays

Source: Self-Reliance and Other Essays

“If you take from the rich you give the rich less incentive. If you give what you have taken from the rich to the poor, you make the poor more dependent. Nobody wins.”

Ifs Giving Winning Poor Rich Taken Dependent Incentives

Author:Josh Bernstein