I fear that in this thing many rich people deceive themselves. They go on accumulating the means but never using them; making bricks, but never building.
Tell him that riches will not procure for you a single moment of happiness. Luxury consoles poverty alone, and at that only for a short time, until one becomes accustomed to it.
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Alexander Pushkin
Darling, if I think of all I miss now, I will go crazy. I should not think of that. I only want to think of all that I still have, and then I am rich. Your spirit is always around me, in your diary, our...
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Diet Eman
A little house well filled a little land well tilled and a little wife well willed are great riches.
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Anonymous
Ah if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches!
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
The pleasures of the rich are bought with the tears of the poor.
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Thomas Fuller
More Quotes By George Eliot
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and...
What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life--to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each...
Poor fellow! I think he is in love with you.' I am not aware of it. And to me it is one of the most odious things in a girl's life, that there must always be some supposition of falling in love coming between her...
Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
