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Published before 06/01/2004
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wealth and poverty)
What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
Who, being loved, is poor?
Land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it.
The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. Actually, it is more probable that the more insincere the man is, the more purely intellectual will the idea be, and in that case it will not be coloured by either his wants, his desires, or his prejudices.
Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon. It can't be questioned: it reigns by divine right.
Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth.
No-one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well.
A gentleman that makes himself way with courage, only with his courage. He who trembles for a minute, lets pass, maybe for ever, the bait that at that precise moment fortune was showing him.
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
When the missionaries arrived in Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said:"Let's pray". We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.