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Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

– Ezra PoundRate it:

Property has its duties as well as its rights.

– Thomas BrummondRate it:

Property left to a child may soon be lost but the inheritance of virtue--a good name an unblemished reputation--will abide forever. If those who are toiling for wealth to leave their children, would but take half the pains to secure for them virtuous habits, how much more serviceable would they be. The largest property may be wrested from a child, but virtue will stand by him to the last.

– William Graham SumnerRate it:

Prophecy is not in practice anymore, nor new prophet will come, but Satan has not stopped. The evil hour will do until the day of justice.

– Ehsan SehgalRate it:

Prophets are geniuses. Not of teaching some useless superstitions, but of conquering the hearts and bending the minds.

– Mwanandeke KindemboRate it:

Proportion your expenses to what you have, not what you expect.

– English ProverbRate it:

Propose to any englishman any principle, or any instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the english mind is directed to find a difficulty, defect or an impossibility in it.

– Charles BabbageRate it:

Propriety was a rigid master, but one that must be obeyed if one wanted to keep a sterling reputation.

– Lawana BlackwellRate it:

Pros and cons Ins and outs Good or bad Happy or sad Mad or glad The balancing act From the poem The Balancing Act by Andreas Simic

– Andreas SimicRate it:

Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.

– Walter Savage LandorRate it:

Prosperity attends the lion-hearted man who exerts himself, while we say, destiny will ensure it. Laying aside destiny, show manly fortitude by thy own strength: if thou endeavour, and thy endeavours fail of success, what crime is there in failing?

– The HitopadesaRate it:

Prosperity depends more on wanting what you have than having what you want.

– Geoffrey F. AlbertRate it:

Prosperity in the form of wealth works exactly the same as everything else. You will see it coming into your life when you are unattached to needing it.

– Wayne DyerRate it:

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

– William HazlittRate it:

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

– William HazlittRate it:

Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things.

– Eric ButterworthRate it:

Prosperity is acquired by exertion, and there is no fruit for him who doth not exert himself: the fawns go not into the mouth of a sleeping lion.

– The HitopadesaRate it:

Prosperity is living easily and happily in the real world, whether you have money or not.

– Jerry GellisRate it:

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

– PlutarchRate it:

Prosperity is not just having things. It is the consciousness that attracts the things. Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just having money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things.

– Eric ButterworthRate it:

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.

– Calvin CoolidgeRate it:

Prosperity knits a man to the world. He thinks he's 'finding his place in it,' while really it is finding its place in him.

– Clive Staples LewisRate it:

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.

– Publilius SyrusRate it:

Prosperity or egalitarianism -- you have to choose. I favor freedom -- you never achieve real equality anyway, you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.

– Marios Vargas LlosaRate it:

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