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'Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.


Mary Worley Montagu

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MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...
GEORGE MACDONALD To be rich simply means,to be able to meet people's need.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) To be rich simply means to be beneficial to others.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c...
GERMANY KENT A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
HENRY WARD BEECHER To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
TOM ROBBINS A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
HENRY WARD BEECHER To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.
GEORGE MACDONALD To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power
GEORGE MACDONALD To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surpr...
C.S. LEWIS The reward of one's duty is the power to fulfill another.
GEORGE ELIOT The reward of one duty is the power to fulfil another.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
GEORGE ELIOT When curiosity drives you, discoveries will line your path
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GENE SIMMONS If the large power voluntarily abstains from using its full power or feels the strategic situation t...
ELLIOT RICHARDSON The reward of one duty done is the power to fulfill another
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JEANETTE WINTERSON To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD Do you love me as the person that I am now, or do you love me as the person I used to be?
ANTHONY T. HINCKS What you say is what you become, be careful with your words
SOTONYE ANGA Be nice to people... maybe it'll be unappreciated, unreciprocated, or ignored, but spread the love a...
GERMANY KENT The rich depend on thinking power to be rich,while the poor also depend on thinking power to become ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Riches is not about having money,but being of rich influence towards another.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) when your heart touched mine,I knew then we were one.
THERESA M WILSON More than any woman I ever knew, she comforted.' -Mrs. Huxley about Emma
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JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN In this long eternal quest to be more like our Savior, may we try to be “perfect” men and women ...
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GERMANY KENT It is sweet to be rich from riches,but sweetest to be rich from poverty.
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FEREIDOON YAZDI It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another...
BHAGAVAD GITA It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, ...
BHAGAVAD GITA Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without ...
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ISRAELMORE AYIVOR You can make a lot of money doing the right thing
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NICNICLOUISIANA Do not be afraid of failure, it is part of the learning process
SOTONYE ANGA The sad heart needs work to do.
JOAN BAUER The man is meant to be the alpha in the relationship on the money and power front.
JAMIE DORNAN Do no look for that ideal person to be with, be that ideal person.
JEFFREY FRY Quiero que [mi hijo] conozca el secreto de la felicidad, algo tan sencillo que da la impresión de q...
JAMES RHODES To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
GOLDA MEIR To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.
JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy

"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
HENRY N. BEARD Meant to be" allows for lazy. The idea of destiny alleviates anxiety; it comforts us. We stop believ...
STEPHANIE KLEIN Do the thing and you will have the power.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON For me, happiness is waking up excited even though you have no particular place to go…..
CHERYL RUSHTON Time is a power of its own, and it may be the only power by which some miracles come to pass.
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH Be prepared to lay claims to the riches of the rich,for most offspring's of the rich are never prepa...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ...
GERMANY KENT Solomon had a good thing going. He asked for wisdom and he got it, riches, and power. I think I'm go...
JOCHEBED GWAMNA Power is like prostitution and it could have pleasure for a while but it has to go to another man
ZAMAN ALI How to be wealthy;Birth an idea & then take it to the market place & believe that the market place w...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It's a sheer and an utter nonsense to even think or imagine that a person can gain and retain people...
ANUJ SOMANY How to be perfect;Think nothing,say nothing & do nothing.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) How to be Great;The moment you realize & accept the ordinary fact that those doing great things toda...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) How to be great;Think of a gigantic & unheard of idea to birth & nurture & inside it lies your great...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Stay true to yourself.Take everyday challenge in your stride & strive to make journey of life exactl...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Be true to yourself.Give wings of confidence & courage to your endeavour. Your strength is reflected...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Like the vital rudder of a ship, we have been provided a way to determine the direction we travel. T...
THOMAS S. MONSON Be true to yourself.Let your belief & thoughts for right cause are not compromised at any cost thoug...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Just because you love someone doesn't mean you're meant to be together.
MICHAELA D. If you can put your mind to it anything can be achieved but to pull something out of nothing althoug...
GARY F EVANS... There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the p...
EPICTETUS We must be more and more to each other, my dear wife.' -Charles Darwin to wife Emma upon loss of dau...
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN I wish you knew how I value you; and what an inexpressible blessing it is to have one whom one can a...
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN Standing in the ring of fire, the eye of the storm, the vortex of pain and pressure is simultaneousl...
LUCY H. PEARCE 7 Rules to a Happy Life:

1. Be humble
2. Don’t worry
3. Don't settle for les...
GERMANY KENT It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though...
BHAGAVAD GITA To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and ex...
TRYON EDWARDS Menon the Thessalian did not either conceal his immoderate desire of riches or his desire of command...
XENOPHON I've got no timetable. I'm sort of sick of timetables, to be honest.
SHIRLEY MANSON It wasn't exactly the road to riches, but it was a road rich in good lessons for life and leading,
WESLEY CLARK For everything seemed resting on his nod, As they could read in all eyes. Now to them, Who we...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) It is not in the power of the devil to do so much harm, as God can do good; nay, we may be bold to s...
JOHN DONNE In the real world, they told you who to be, not the other way around.
RHODA BELLEZA If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT Sure most of us are 'happy'. Happy when we're shopping or drinking in the pub. Try being happy for j...
CHERYL RUSHTON Remember that yours is not the only heart that may be wishing for love.
CAMERON DOKEY Good character supersedes fame, wealth and power; unearth it and you will discover the riches of inn...
SCOTTIE SOMERS Grant that I may become beautiful in my soul within, and that all my external possessions may be in ...
PLATO It's sort of a feeling of power onstage. It's really the ability to make people smile, or just to tu...
ROBERT PLANT This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to l...
SUSAN POLIS SCHUTZ The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON the lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness. It is the expression of the inability ...
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MARY STUART You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when.
MARY SCHMICH 'The Hunger Games' isn't for everybody. But neither is 'Anna Karenina.'
MARY SCHMICH For some Chicago expats, food is the medicine that blunts the pain of separation.
MARY SCHMICH TV happens. And once it's happened, it's gone. When it's gone, you move on, no tears, no...
MARY SCHMICH The first gay person I ever met was surely not the first gay person I ever met.
MARY SCHMICH The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.
MARY SCHMICH You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.
MARY SCHMICH Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with those who are reckless w...
MARY SCHMICH In twenty years you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp n...
MARY SCHMICH Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.
MARY SCHMICH Every day each of us wakes up, reaches into drawers and closets, pulls out a costume for the day and...
MARY SCHMICH On an average day, we allow ourselves the fiction that we own a piece of our workplace. That's p...
MARY SCHMICH I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renew...
MARY SCHMICH Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you'll have a trust fund. Maybe you'll ha...
MARY SCHMICH Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, ...
MARY SCHMICH Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air...
MARY SCHMICH Dad thought something very fishy was going on when, at 22, I was offered a job for £1,000 a ye...
MARY BERRY Campaigning in Wyoming is politics at its most retail level. It's done one voter at a time.
MARY CHENEY One of our most promising technologies is Super Cruise, which is the working name for an innovative ...
MARY BARRA I was always nervous before a television show, and I still am now. But 'The Great British Bake O...
MARY BERRY When you look at the truck market in North America, you have to understand the customer, and that...
MARY BARRA If you are buying a larger turkey than usual, make sure it will fit in the oven.
MARY BERRY I mainly cook British food with a few things I've had on my holidays. I went to the Canary Islan...
MARY BERRY Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. J...
MARY BUCKLEY The test of man is how well he is able to feel about what he thinks. The test of a woman is how we...
MARY MCDOWELL Liberty, as it is concieved by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ...
MARY MCCARTY Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ...
MARY MCCARTHY Young writers often mistakenly choose a certain vein or style based on who they want to be, unconsci...
MARY KARR But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhi...
MARY SHELLEY