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"The wealth of time is actually of more value than natural resources."

"You can only make money from a time well converted."

"When the going gets tough: the poor close their eyes, the rich open their wallets."

"To misuse wealth is a great fault."

"There really is no correlation between age and one's bank balance. I've met wealthy boys and broke men."

"Try not to be like those who hunger for financial success without understanding the difference between their wants and needs."

"The prosperity of a person is directly proportional to the level of his giving."

"I can amass countless fortunes and yet stand with empty hands. I can seek God and have fortunes that fill countless hands."
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"It is curious what patches of hardness and tenderness lie side by side in men's dispositions. I suppose he has some test by which he finds out whom Heaven cares for."

"Whatever else remained the same, the light had changed, and you cannot find the pearly dawn at noonday. The fact is unalterable, that a fellow-mortal with whose nature you are acquainted solely through the brief entrances and exits of a few imaginative weeks called courtship, may, when seen in the continuity of married companionship, be disclosed as something better or worse than what you have preconceived, but will certainly not appear altogether the same."

"Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings."

"It is a mere cowardice to seek safety in negations. No character becomes strong in that way. You will be thrown into the world some day and then every rational satisfaction your nature that you deny now will assault like a savage appetite."

"It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self-never to be fully possessed by the glory we behold, never to have our consciousness rapturously transformed into the vividness of a thought, the ardor of a passion, the energy of an action, but always to be scholarly and uninspired, ambitious and timid, scrupulous and dim-sighted."

"To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion."
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