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- Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players. Cultivated labor drives out brute labor.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.
- Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
- A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.
- Richard Burton
- Our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- God's mill grinds slow but sure.
- Herbert
- You get the best out of others when you get the best out of yourself.
- Harvey Firestone
- Freedom is a package deal - with it comes responsibilities and consequences.
- Author Unknown
- A good inclination is but the first rude draught of virtue, but the finishing strokes are from the will, which, if well disposed, will by degrees perfect it, as if all disposed will quickly deface it.
- South
- A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment; and even obstacles and opposition will but make us "like the fabled specter-ships," which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Religion is meant to be bread for daily use, not cake for special occasions.
- Author Unknown
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