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The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little.
-William Ralph Inge
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The Wealth Of A Soul Is Measured

William Ralph Inge
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little.
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Let us look at wealth and poverty. the affluent society and the deprived society inter-are. the wealth of one society is made of the poverty of the other. "this is like this, because that is like that." wealth is made of non-wealth elements, and poverty is made by non-poverty elements. [...] so we must be careful not to imprison ourselves in concepts. the truth is that everything contains everything else. we cannot just be, we can only inter-be. we are responsible fo everything that happens around us.
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It is true that so far as wealth gives time for ideal ends and exercise to ideal energies, wealth is better than poverty and ought to be chosen. but wealth does this in only a portion of the actual cases. elsewhere the desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption. there must be thousands of conjunctures in which a wealth-bound man must be a slave, whilst a man for whom poverty has no terrors becomes a freeman.
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How do i change? if i feel depressed i will sing. if i feel sad i will laugh. if i feel ill i will double my labor. if i feel fear i will plunge ahead. if i feel inferior i will wear new garments. if i feel uncertain i will raise my voice. if i feel poverty i will think of wealth to come. if i feel incompetent i will think of past success. if i feel insignificant i will remember my goals. today i will be the master of my emotions.
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