<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=512707" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Vanity of Wealth</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">No more thus brooding o'er yon heap,<br>With avarice painful vigils keep:<br>Still unenjoy'd the present store,<br>Still endless sighs are breathed for more.<br>O! quit the shadow, catch the prize,<br>Which not all India's treasure buys!<br>To purchase with heaven has gold the power? <br>Can gold remove the mortal hour?<br>In life can love be bought with gold? <br>Are friendship's pleasures to be sold? <br>No! - all that's worth a wish - a thought,<br>Fair virtue gives unbribed, unbought,<br>Cease then on trash thy hopes to bind,<br>Let noble views engage thy mind.<br>With science tread the wondrous way,<br>Or learn the Muses' moral lay;<br>In social hours indulge thy soul,<br>Where mirth and temperance mix the bowl;<br>To virtuous love resign thy breast,<br>And be, by blessing beauty, - bless'd. <br>Thus taste the feast by Nature spread,<br>Ere youth and all its joys are fled;<br>Come taste with me the balm of life,<br>Secure from pomp, and wealth, and strife.<br>I boast whate'er for man was meant,<br>In health, and Stella, and content; <br>And scorn! (oh! let that scorn be thine!)<br>Mere things of clay, that dig the mine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Samuel+Johnson">Samuel Johnson</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=512707" data-title="The Vanity of Wealth de Samuel Johnson" data-description="No more thus brooding o'er yon heap, With avarice painful vigils keep: Still unenjoy'd the present store, Still endless sighs are breathed for more. O! quit the shadow, catch the prize, Which not all India's treasure buys! To purchase with heaven ..."></div> </div> </div>

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