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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting,
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A wise man is he who does not grieve for the thing which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
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What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes. Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings-- they are so trite, so threadbare. None the less they embody the concentrated experience of the race, and the man who orders his life according to their teac
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He that thinks himself the wisest is generally the least so.
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Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.
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There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
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Some people lose their health getting wealth and then lose their wealth gaining health.
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A great fortune in the hands of a fool is a great misfortune.
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Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
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The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.
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If thou desire to purchase honor with thy wealth, consider first how that wealth became thine; if thy labor got it, let thy wisdom keep it; if oppression found it, let repentance restore it; if thy parent left it, let thy virtues deserve it; so shall thy
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The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed.
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That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
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Wealth is not of necessity a curse, nor poverty a blessing. Wholesome and easy abundance is better than either extreme; better for our manhood that we have enough for daily comfort; enough for culture, for hospitality, for charity. More than this may or m
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He who multiplies riches multiplies cares.
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The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.
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Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.
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We have among us a class of mammon worshippers, whose one test of conservatism or radicalism is the attitude one takes with respect to accumulated wealth. Whatever tends to preserve the wealth of the wealthy is called conservatism, and whatever favors any
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It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.
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If you see yourself as prosperous, you will be. If you see yourself as continually hard up, that is exactly what you will be.
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A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness.
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In seeking wisdom thou are wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it thou are a fool.
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The greatest paradox of them all is to speak of civilized warfare.
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As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
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Wars begin in the minds of man, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
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War is cruel and you cannot refine it.
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It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families.
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If nations could overcome the mutual fear and distrust whose somber shadow is now thrown over the world, and could meet with confidence and good will to settle their possible differences, they would easily be able to establish a lasting peace.
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Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.
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War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
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The quality of American life must keep pace with the quantity of American goods. This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.
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I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.
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So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private citizens will occasionally kill their.s
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But in modern war you will die like a dog for no good reason.
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of the utmost insecurity.
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If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one would remain in the ranks.
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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat o
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To my mind to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
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The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. The master class had all to gain and nothing to lose, while the subject class has had nothing to gain and all to lose - especially their lives.
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The best soldiers are not warlike.
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War like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few. The cost of operations is always transferred to the people who do not profit.
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Were there but one virtuous man in the world, he would hold up his head with confidence and honor; he would shame the world, and not the world him.
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Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.
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Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
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To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.
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Vanity is the quicksand of reason.
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Vanity makes us do more things against inclination than reason.
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The general cry is against ingratitude, but the complaint is misplaced, it should be against vanity; none but direct villains are capable of willful ingratitude; but almost everybody is capable of thinking he hath done more that another deserves, while th
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Offended vanity is the great separator in social life.
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