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A certain writer has said, "We always dread a professed but insincere friend; he is the least desirable of all relations." They are further described as being satisfied to remain in their lukewarm condition, indulging themselves in the riches and the pleasures of this life.

And Ethelrida wondered. "What can make you so unhappy, you beautiful thing, with Tristram to love you, and youth and health and riches?" And Zara thought, "This appears a sweet and most frank lady, but how can I tell? I know not the English. It is perhaps because she is so well bred that she is enabled to act so nicely." "You have not yet seen Wrayth, have you?" Ethelrida went on.

But what shall I say to engage you to go with me? Can riches tempt, or praise allure you? The glass which I shall bid him look in, will show him his inward self; but if he will not open both his eyes and heart enough to truth, to let him understand, that the pleasures he pursues not only are not but cannot be satisfactory, I can be of no sort of service to him.

The place of the wells and of the walls and of many other things be yet apertly seen, but the riches is voided clean. And it is not long gone, since that place was destroyed. BESIDE that Isle of Mistorak upon the left side nigh to the river of Pison is a marvellous thing. There is a vale between the mountains, that dureth nigh a four mile.

She had not supposed that Wolff's proud family was so wealthy; but the close of this report brought fresh disappointment, for including the sum which Herr Casper had borrowed from the Jew Pfefferkorn, the debts of the firm exceeded its possessions far more than Els had expected from the amount of its riches.

Let it not be so with us this day. Let us seek to find out what our Lord means, that we may do it; trying and failing and trying again verily to be victorious at last what matter WHEN, so long as we are trying, and so coming nearer to our end! "MAMMON, you know, means RICHES. Now, riches are meant to be the slave not even the servant of man, and not to be the master.

Monsieur Poopoo pricked up his ears at this, and was lost in astonishment. This was a much easier way certainly of accumulating riches than selling toys in Chatham Street, and he determined to buy and mend his fortune without delay. The auctioneer proceeded in his sale. Other parcels were offered and disposed of, and all the purchasers were promised immense advantages for their enterprise.

From whence proceedeth a Presumption that the punishments ordained by the Lawes, and extended generally to all Subjects, ought not to be inflicted on them, with the same rigour they are inflicted on poore, obscure, and simple men, comprehended under the name of the Vulgar. Presumption Of Riches

Ambition is of a higher and more heroic strain than avarice. Its objects are nobler, and the means by which it attains its ends less mechanical. Better be lord of them that riches have, Than riches have myself, and be their servile slave. The incentive to ambition is the love of power; the spur to avarice is either the fear of poverty or a strong desire of self-indulgence.

All property left in Mr. Morris's hands that had not been claimed was removed to his mansion at Port Morris, when he returned from his ministry, and he gained in the esteem and envy of his neighbors when the extent of these riches was seen. Once, at the wine, he touched glasses with his wife, and said that if she bore a male child that son should be heir to his wealth.