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Rich Quotes (10 quotes)

A Man of Knowledge like a rich Soil, feeds
If not a world of Corn, a world of Weeds.
— Benjamin Franklin
In Poor Richard's Almanack (1739).
Science quotes on:  |  Feeding (5)  |  Knowledge (593)  |  Man (239)  |  Soil (22)  |  Weed (5)  |  World (165)

But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal attention to the rich and the poor.
— Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
A Philosophical Dictionary: from the French? (2nd Ed.,1824), Vol. 5, 239-240.
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He who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the waters, the plants, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments, is the rich and royal man.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essays, Second Series (1844).
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I happen to have discovered a direct relation between magnetism and light, also electricity and light, and the field it opens is so large and I think rich.
— Michael Faraday
Letter to Christian Schönbein (13 Nov 1845), The Letters of Faraday and Schoenbein, 1836-1862 (1899), 148.
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If we range through the whole territory of nature, and endeavour to extract from each department the rich stores of knowledge and pleasure they respectively contain, we shall not find a more refined or purer source of amusement, or a more interesting and unfailing subject for recreation, than that which the observation and examination of the structure, affinities, and habits of plants and vegetables, afford.
— Sir Joseph Paxton
In A Practical Treatise on the Cultivation of the Dahlia (1838), 2.
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Physician's faults are covered with earth, and rich men's with money.
— English Proverb
In Adam Wooléver (ed.), Treasury of Wisdom, Wit and Humor, Odd Comparisons and Proverbs (1878), 507.
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Seldom, if ever, was any knowledge given to keep but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.
— Joseph Hall
'The Rapture of Elijah', The Works of Joseph Hall, Vol 2, Contemplations (1808), 27.
Science quotes on:  |  Concealment (6)  |  Gift (22)  |  Grace (5)  |  Jewel (3)  |  Knowledge (593)  |  Loss (37)

Social reform aims to improve the condition of the poor by worsening the condition of the rich.
— Martin H. Fischer
Science quotes on:  |  Poverty (18)  |  Reform (5)  |  Wealth (23)

When rich men are thus brought to regard themselves as trustees, and poor men learn to be industrious, economical, temperate, self-denying, and diligent in the acquisition of knowledge, then the deplorable strife between capital and labor, tending to destroy their fundamental, necessary, and irrefragable harmony will cease, and the world will no longer be afflicted with such unnatural industrial conflicts as we have seen during the past century...
— Peter Cooper
Address (31 May 1871) to the 12th annual commencement at the Cooper Union, honoring his 80th birthday, in New York City Mission and Tract Society, Annual report of the New York City Mission and Tract Society (1872), 69.
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When the state is shaken to its foundations by internal or external events, when commerce, industry and all trades shall be at a stand, and perhaps on the brink of ruin; when the property and fortune of all are shaken or changed, and the inhabitants of towns look forward with dread and apprehension to the future, then the agriculturalist holds in his hand the key to the money chest of the rich, and the savings-box of the poor; for political events have not the slightest influence on the natural law, which forces man to take into his system, daily, a certain number of ounces of carbon and nitrogen.
Reflecting on events of 1848.
— Justus von Liebig
Familiar Letters on Chemistry (1851), 3rd edn., 483.
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