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The intelligent beings in these regions should therefore not be surprised if they observe that their locality in the universe satisfies the conditions that are necessary for their existence. It is a bit like a rich person living in a wealthy neighborhood not seeing any poverty.

Earth is dry to the centre,_x000D_But spring, a new comer,_x000D_A spring rich and strange,_x000D_Shall make the winds blow_x000D_Round and round,_x000D_Thro' and thro',_x000D_Here and there,_x000D_Till the air_x000D_And the ground_x000D_Shall be fill'd with life anew.

I gazed upon the glorious sky_x000D__x000D_And the green mountains round,_x000D__x000D_And thought that when I came to lie_x000D__x000D_At rest within the ground,_x000D__x000D_'Twere pleasant, that in flowery June_x000D__x000D_When brooks send up a cheerful tune,_x000D__x000D_And groves a joyous sound,_x000D__x000D_The sexton's hand, my grave to make,_x000D__x000D_The rich, green mountain-turf should break.

Blackberry winter, the time when the hoarforst lies on the blackberry blossoms; without this frost the berries will not set. It is the forerunner of a rich harvest.

Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people. They nourish and refresh us and provide a home for dazzling varieties of fish and wildlife and trees and plants of every sort. We are a nation rich in rivers.

Come boy, and pour for me a cup Of old Falernian. Fill it up With wine, strong, sparkling, bright, and clear; Our host decrees no water here. Let dullards drink the Nymph's pale brew, The sluggish thin their blood with dew. For such pale stuff we have no use; For us the purple grape's rich juice. Begone, ye chilling water sprite; Here burning Bacchus rules tonight! Catullus, Selections From Catullus No poems can live long or please that are written by water-drinkers.

Many an optimist has become rich simply by buying out a pessimist.

Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems.

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.

The rich diversity of the world's cultures reflects a corresponding diversity in the wilds that gave them birth.

When you're rich, you don't write checks. Straight cash, homey.

The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is to endeavor to carry out those schemes which he entertained when he was poor

As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit

'Mixtape' is a very appropriate word to include in the title of Goran Hugo Olsson's film because it includes a rich mixture of cultural voices. They speak across different dividing lines such as those of haves and have-nots, youth and maturity, black and white, national and global, and the past and the present.

I choose kindness... I will be kind to the poor, for they are alone. Kind to the rich, for they are afraid. And kind to the unkind, for such is how God has treated me

You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot lift the wage-earner by pulling down the wage-payer. You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending

Women naturally desire the same six things as I; they want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous with money, obedient to the wife, and lively in bed.

If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich.

The rich invest in time, the poor invest in money.

As soon as a man recognizes that he has drifted into age, he gets reminiscent. He wants to talk and talk; and not about the present or the future, but about his old times. For there is where the pathos of his life lies - and the charm of it. The pathos of it is there because it was opulent with treasures that are gone, and the charm of it is in casting them up from the musty ledgers and remembering how rich and gracious they were.

The reason why we see that people of the greatest capacity are not rich, is either they despise wealth in comparison to something else, or, they are not content in getting an estate, unless they may do it in their own way, while at the same time enjoying all the pleasures and gratitude's of life.