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crossing the desert to sell in the markets of Persia.

The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is
poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who
though he have millions is covetous. There are riches of intellect,
and no man with an intellectual taste can be called poor. He is rich
as well as brave who can face compulsory poverty and misfortune with
cheerfulness and courage.

We can so educate the will power that it will focus the thoughts upon
the bright side of things, and upon objects which elevate the soul,
thus forming a habit of happiness and goodness which will make us rich.
The habit of making the best of everything and of always looking on the
bright side is a fortune in itself.

He is rich who values a good name above gold. Among the ancient Greeks
and Romans honor was more sought after than wealth. Rome was imperial
Rome no more when the imperial purple became an article of traffic.

Diogenes was captured by pirates and sold as a slave. His purchaser
released him, giving him charge of his household and of the education
of his children. Diogenes despised wealth and affectation, and lived
in a tub. "Do you want anything?" asked Alexander the Great, greatly
impressed by the abounding cheerfulness of the philosopher under such
circumstances. "Yes," replied Diogenes, "I want you to stand out of my
sunshine and not take from me what you can not give me." "Were I not
Alexander," exclaimed the great conqueror, "I would be Diogenes."

"Do you know, sir," said a devotee of Mammon to John Bright, "that I am
worth a million sterling?" "Yes," said the irritated but calm-spirited
respondent, "I do; and I know that it is all you are worth."

What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating
with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?

St. Paul was never so great as when he occupied a prison cell under the
streets of Rome; and Jesus Christ reached the height of His success
when, smitten, spat upon, tormented, and crucified, He cried in agony,
and yet with triumphant satisfaction, "It is finished."

Don't start out in life with a false standard; a truly great man makes
official position and money and houses and estates look so tawdry, so
mean and poor, that we feel like sinking out of sight with our cheap
laurels and our gold.

One of the great lessons to teach in thi