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Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.

Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success, Best Love, Money
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.90

Money is of no value; it cannot spend itself. All depends on the skill of the spender.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Money, Skills, Depends
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.224, Library of America

Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Encouragement, Money, Remember
1870 Society and Solitude,'Works and Days'.

Money often costs too much.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Money, Greatest Wealth
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.58, Harvard University Press

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sweet, Money, Men

Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, "If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?"

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Money, Mean, Conceited
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2148, Delphi Classics

Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Money, People, Inheritance
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.269

We take care of our health; we lay up money; we make our roof tight, and our clothing sufficient; but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting in the best property of all, -friends?

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, Money, Real

Money often costs too much, and power and pleasure are not cheap.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Money, Cost, Too Much
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.58, Harvard University Press

Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Beautiful, Money
Essays, Second Series "Nominalist and Realist" (1844)

The whole value of the dime is in knowing what to do with it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Money, Knowing, Dimes
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.236, Harvard University Press

Men such as they are, very naturally seek money or power; and power because it is as good as money.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Money, Power, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.160, Courier Corporation

The value of a dollar is to buy just things; a dollar goes on increasing in value with all the genius and all the virtue of the world. A dollar in a university is worth more than a dollar in a jail; in a temperate, schooled, law-abiding community than in some sink of crime, where dice, knives, and arsenic are in constant play.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Money, Law, Knives
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.630, Modern Library

The true thrift is always to spend on the higher plane; to invest and invest, with keener avarice, that he may spend in spiritualcreation, and not in augmenting animal existence. Nor is the man enriched, in repeating the old experiments of animal sensation; nor unless through new powers and ascending pleasures he knows himself by the actual experience of higher good to be already on the way to the highest.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Money, Animal, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.362

The counting-room maxims liberally expounded are laws of the Universe. The merchant's economy is a coarse symbol of the soul's economy. It is, to spend for power, and not for pleasure.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Money, Law, Soul
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.381

Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Money, Debt, Pay
'Solution' (1847)

Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love, Courage, Money
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1978). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1854-1861”, p.332, Harvard University Press

It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Money, Skills, Rothschild

A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Money, Creativity, Creative
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1857). “English Traits”, p.178

The secret of success lies never in the amount of money, but in the relation of income to outgo.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success, Money, Lying
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.377

When the man is at home, his standing in society is well known and quietly taken; but when he is abroad, it is problematical, and is dependent on the success of his manners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Relationship, Money, Taken
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Money, War, Corn

The world is his who has money to go over it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Money, World, Over It
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II”, p.366

For you, o broker, there is no other principle but arithmetic. For me, commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred; nor can I detach one duty, like you, from all other duties, and concentrate my forces mechanically on the payment of moneys.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Money, Character, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays”, p.70, Xist Publishing

This whole business of Trade gives me to pause and think, as it constitutes false relations between men; inasmuch as I am prone tocount myself relieved of any responsibility to behave well and nobly to that person who I pay with money, whereas if I had not that commodity, I should be put on my good behavior in all companies, and man would be a benefactor to man, as being himself his only certificate that he had a right to those aids and services which each asked of the other.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Money, Responsibility, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1937). “Essays, First and Second Series”, p.202, Jazzybee Verlag

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