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"The wealth of time is actually of more value than natural resources."
"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."
"I can amass countless fortunes and yet stand with empty hands. I can seek God and have fortunes that fill countless hands."
"Not every happy person is rich, and, Not every rich person is happy."
Explore more quotes by John Sergeant Wise
"Virginians were no more angels or philanthropists than people to the north or to the south of them. They were moved by their affections, their interest, and their resentments, just as humanity is moved today."
"Even if my mother had no qualms of conscience concerning ownership of negroes, her sense of duty carried her far beyond the mere supplying of their physical needs, or requiring that they render faithful service."
"When I first concluded to print the book, I made an honest effort to construct it in the third person."
"In those days, slavery was not looked upon, even in Quaker Philadelphia, with the shudder and abhorrence one feels towards it now."
"That settled Abraham Lincoln with me. I was thoroughly satisfied that no such man ought to be President; but I could not yet conceive it possible that such a monster would be the choice of a majority of the people for President."
"The attack of John Brown upon Harper's Ferry came upon Virginia like a clap of thunder out of a clear sky."
"In the year 1857, passing through Washington on our return from the annual visit to Philadelphia, I had the distinguished honor of visiting a President for the first time."
"This and many others only confirmed me in the opinion, planted when I saw the sale of Martha Ann, and growing steadily thereafter, that slavery was an accursed business, and that the sooner my people were relieved of it, the better."
"My mother was a Northern woman, daughter of Hon. John Sergeant, a distinguished lawyer, and for many years representative in Congress from Philadelphia."
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