Big money is not a good thing for a little soul: it will only ensnare his feet, and he will fall to his ruin. Wealth is safe only for those who have a wealth of wisdom.
Interpretation
Wealth can corrupt those who lack wisdom, leading to downfall.
The quote warns that large sums of money can be detrimental to individuals who are not wise enough to manage it. It suggests that true wealth is found in wisdom, indicating that without the right mindset and understanding, the pursuit of monetary gain can lead one to destruction.
In practice
In a discussion about the impacts of money on life choices, this quote serves as a warning against greed.
Greed and Gain, grim guardians of the great god Mammon, continually cry in the ears of the poor, 'Give us your little ones!' And forever do the poor push out their little ones at the imperious ukase, feeding the children to a blind Hunger that is never filled.
Sorrows come to stretch out places in the heart for joy.
There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.
The crest and crowning of all good, life's final star, is Brotherhood.
He drew a circle that shut me out- Heretic , rebel, a thing to flout. But love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle and took him In ! From the poem " Outwitted
The sequoias belong to the silences of the milleniums. Many of them have seen a hundred human generations rise, give off their little clamors and perish. They seem indeed to be forms of immortality standing here amoing the transitory shapes of time.
If we humans are good at anything, it’s thinking we’ve got a terrific idea and going for it without acknowledging the potential consequences or our own ignorance.
A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful.
I forgot more than you'll ever know.
Health, wealth, beauty, and genius are not created; they are only manifested by the arrangement of your mind-that is, by your concept of yourself, and your concept of yourself is all that you accept and consent to as true.
Faith is the ability to see things that don't yet exist. Faith, though, can turn difficulty into reality, positive reality.
Greatness is not found in possessions, power, position, or prestige. It is discovered in goodness, humility, service, and character.
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