Ralph Waldo Emerson on Wealth

“Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.”

“Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.”

“The horseman serves the horse, The neatherd serves the neat, The merchant serves the purse, The eater serves his meat; 'T is the day of the chattel, Web to weave, and corn to grind; Things are in the saddle, And ride mankind.”

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