Great Throughts Treasury

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William Mason

With what a heavy and retarding weight does expectation load the wing of time.

Avarice | Sorrow |

Edwin Percy Whipple

What a man does with his wealth depends upon his idea of happiness. Those who draw prizes in life are apt to spend tastelessly, if not viciously; not knowing that it requires as much talent to spend as to make.

Avarice | Folly | History | Life | Life | Time |

Emily Dickinson, fully Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

My life closed twice before its close; it yet remains to see if Immortality unveil a third event to me, so huge, so hopeless to conceive, as these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.

Avarice | Forgive | Friends |