864 WEALTH WEALTH
Amiable weakness of human nature.
Gibbon—Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Ch.XIV.
Das sterbliche Gesehlecht ist viel zu schwach
In ungewohnter Hohe nicht zu schwindeln.
The mortal race is far too weak not to grow
dizzy on unwonted heights.
Goethe—Iphigenia auf Tauris. I. 3. 98.
And the weak soul, within itself unbless'd,
Leans for all pleasure on another's breast.
| author = Goldsmith
| work = The Traveller. L. 271.
On affaiblit toujours tout ce qu'on exagere.
We always weaken whatever we exaggerate.
La Habpe—M&anie. I. 1.
Soft-heartedness, in times like these,
Shows sof'ness in the upper story!
| author = Lowell
| work = The Biglow Pavers. Second Series.
No. 7.
If weakness may excuse,
What murderer, what traitor, parricide,
Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it?
All wickedness is weakness; that plea, therefore,
With God or man will gain thee no remission.
| author = Milton
| work = Samson Agonistes. L. 831.
Heaven forming each on other to depend,
A master, or a servant, or a friend,
Bids each on other for assistance call,
Till one man's weakness grows the strength of
all.
| author = Pope
| work = Essay on Man.
| place = Ep. II. L. 249.
Fine by defect, and delicately weak.
| author = Pope
| work = Moral Essays. Ep. II. L. 43.
Even the weakest is thrust to the wall.
In Scogin's Tests. (1540)
The weakest goeth to the wall.
Title of a play printed 1600, and 1618.
The weakest goes to the wall.
TtrviLL—Essays Morall. (1609)
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pleasure, woman's pain—
Nature made them blinder motions bounded in
a shallower brain.
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WEALTH
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There are, while human miseries abound,
A thousand ways to waste superfluous wealth,
Without one fool or flatterer at your board,
Without one hour of sickness or disgust.
Armstrong—Art of Preserving Health. Bk.
II. L. 195.
I have mental joys and mental health,
Mental friends and mental wealth,
I've a wife that I love and that loves me;
I've all but riches bodily.
Wm. Blake—Mammon.
Since all the riches of this world
May be gifts from the devil and earthly kings,
I should suspect that I worshipped the devil
If I thanked my God for worldly things.
Wm. Blake—Riches.
But I have learned a thing or two; 1 know as
sure as fate,
When we lock up our lives for wealth, the gold
key comes too late.
Will Cakleton—The Ancient Miner's Story.
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| text = Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled
Dilettantism, and their thousand adjuncts and
corollaries, are not the Law by which God Almighty has appointed this His universe to go.
Carlyle—Past and Present. Ch. VI.
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Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for
the good of the community.
Andrew Carnegie—Gospel of Wealth.
Las necedades del rico por sentencias pasan
en el mundo.
The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise
saws in society.
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| work = Don Quixote.
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| text = Non esse cupidum, pecunia est; non esse emacem, vectigal est; contentum vero suis rebus
esse, maxima sunt, certissinueque divitiae.
Not to be avaricious is money; not to be
fond of buying is a revenue; but to be content
with our own is the greatest and most certain
wealth of all.
Cicero—Paradoxa. 6. 3.
Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure
life and prosperity and you need not give alms.
Emerson—Wealth.
Want is a growing giant whom the coat of
Have was never large enough to cover.
Emerson—Wealth.
If your Riches are yours, why don't you take
them with you to t'other world?
Benj. Franklin—Poor Richard. (1751)
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| text = <poem>Who hath not heard the rich complain
Of surfeits, and corporeal pain?
He barr'd from every use of wealth,
Envies the ploughman's strength and health.
Gay—Fables. The Cookmaid, Turnspit, and Ox.
The ideal social state is not that in which
each gets an equal amount of wealth, but in
which each gets in proportion to his contribution to the general stock.
Henry George—Social Problems. Ch. VI.
And to hie him home, at evening's close,
To sweet repast, and calm repose.
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From toil he wins his spirits light,
From busy day the peaceful night:
Rich, from the very want of wealth,
In heaven's best treasures, peace and health.
Gray—Ode on the Pleasure Arising from Vicissitude. L. 87. Last two lines said to have
been added by the Rev. William Mason,
Gray's biographer.
