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Sunday, December 12, 2021

Post #3102

One always receiving, never giving, is like the stagnant pool, in which whatever flows remains, whatever remains, corrupts.
—John A. James

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Friday, November 01, 2019

Post #2950

Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.
—Johann Georg von Zimmermann

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Monday, October 02, 2017

Post #2416

If you wish to remove avarice you must remove its mother, luxury.
—Cicero
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Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Post #2043

Charity gives itself rich; covetousness hoards itself poor.
—German Proverb
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Thursday, April 30, 2015

Post #1804

Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Friday, December 12, 2014

Post #1705

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
—Benjamin Franklin
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Friday, December 14, 2012

Post #1137

If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.
—Francis Bacon
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Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Post #917

Thirst of wealth no quiet knows,
But near the death-bed fiercer grows.
—Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea
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Friday, August 26, 2011

Post #692

There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
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Friday, June 03, 2011

Post #608

Sufficiency's enough for men of sense.
—Euripides

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Thursday, October 07, 2010

Post #370

If you desire many things, many things will seem but a few.
—Benjamin Franklin
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Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Post #319

Bad is want which is born of plenty.
—Publilius Syrus
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Sunday, June 27, 2010

Post #267

Many things are wanting to poverty, all things to avarice.
—Publilius Syrus

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Monday, March 15, 2010

Post #165

Poor is not the person who has little, but the person who craves more.
—Seneca
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Saturday, December 12, 2009

Post #73

God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones.
—Publilius Syrus

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Friday, November 27, 2009

Post #58

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.
—Leonardo da Vinci
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The Penalty of Leadership

In every field of human endeavor, he that is first must perpetually live in the white light of publicity. Whether the leadership be vested in a man or in a manufactured product, emulation and envy are ever at work. In art, in literature, in music, in industry, the reward and the punishment are always the same. The reward is widespread recognition; the punishment, fierce denial and detraction. When a man’s work becomes a standard for the whole world, it also becomes a target for the shafts of the envious few. If his work be mediocre, he will be left severely alone – if he achieve a masterpiece, it will set a million tongues a -wagging. Jealousy does not protrude its forked tongue at the artist who produces a commonplace painting. Whatsoever you write, or paint, or play, or sing, or build, no one will strive to surpass or to slander you unless your work be stamped with the seal of genius. Long, long after a great work or a good work has been done, those who are disappointed or envious, continue to cry out that it cannot be done. Spiteful little voices in the domain of art were raised against our own Whistler as a mountebank, long after the big world had acclaimed him its greatest artistic genius. Multitudes flocked to Bayreuth to worship at the musical shrine of Wagner, while the little group of those whom he had dethroned and displaced argued angrily that he was no musician at all. The little world continued to protest that Fulton could never build a steamboat, while the big world flocked to the river banks to see his boat steam by. The leader is assailed because he is a leader, and the effort to equal him is merely added proof of that leadership. Failing to equal or to excel, the follower seeks to depreciate and to destroy – but only confirms once more the superiority of that which he strives to supplant. There is nothing new in this. It is as old as the world and as old as human passions – envy, fear, greed, ambition, and the desire to surpass. And it all avails nothing. If the leader truly leads, he remains – the leader. Master-poet, master-painter, master-workman, each in his turn is assailed, and each holds his laurels through the ages. That which is good or great makes itself known, no matter how loud the clamor of denial. That which deserves to live — lives.
written by Theodore F. MacManus

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