Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
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The man who can but sketch his purpose beforehand in words is regarded as a wonder, and every artist and writer possesses that faculty. But gestation, fruition, the laborious rearing of the offspring, putting it to bed every night full fed with milk, embracing it anew every morning with the inexhaustible affection of a mother's heart, licking it clean, dressing it a hundred times in the richest garb only to be instantly destroyed; then never to be cast down at the convulsions of this headlong life till the living masterpiece is perfected which in sculpture speaks to every eye, in literature to every intellect, in painting to every memory, in music to every heart! --this is the task of execution. The hand must be ready at every moment to work in obedience to the mind.
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However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not bad... it looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults, even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may have perhaps so
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The richest of all lords is Use, And ruddy Health the loftiest Muse....
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Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.
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He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who opens the doors of opportunity widest to those about him; who is ears to the deaf; eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. Such a man makes every acre of land in his community worth more, and makes richer every man who lives near him.
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The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.
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The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.
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Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world.
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There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.
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Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
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The richest person in the world is not the one who still has the first dollar they ever earned. It's the person who still has their first friend.
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As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.
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However mean your life is, meet it and live it do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.
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Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.
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He is richest who is content with the least
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That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.
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That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.
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He is richest who is content with the least.
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