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Quotes About Abundance

more than enough, he calculated, to carry them through the strait and to the Moluccas.
~ Laurence Bergreen
The weather had relented, and fish, as they knew from their first visit to the river, were plentiful.
~ Laurence Bergreen
could provide abundant food, and their thick, glossy, silvery-gray pelts a sorely needed source of warmth in these frigid latitudes.
~ Laurence Bergreen
People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy.
~ Laurence Sterne
Moody had never thought much about money, because he never needed to. Lights went on when he flipped switches; water came out when he turned the tap.
~ Celeste Ng
They may have three or four cars instead of one or two, and they may have two television sets instead of one,
~ Celeste Ng
the streets swarming with unabashed fecundity,
~ Celeste Ng
There shall be Eternal summer in the grateful heart.
~ Celia Thaxter
Seeds must be sown everywhere. Only some will bear fruit. But there would not be the fruit from the few had the many not been sown.
~ Chaim Potok
A purchase is but a purchase, now that you have money enough and to spare. Formerly it used to be a triumph.
~ Chandler Burr
Happiness: a way station between too little and too much.
~ Channing Pollock
But where sin increased, grace abounded all the more. Romans 5:20
~ Charles C. Ryrie
In came a fiddler… and tuned like fifty stomachaches. In came Mrs. Fezziwig, one vast substantial smile.
~ Charles Dickens
There is always something for which to be thankful.
~ Charles Dickens
There was something very comfortable in having plenty of stationery.
~ Charles Dickens
Its other name was Satis, which is Greek, or Latin, or Hebrew, or all three -- or all one to me -- for enough....but it meant more than it said. It meant, when it was given, that whoever had this house, could want nothing else.
~ Charles Dickens
we produced a bundle of pens, a copious supply of ink, and a goodly show of writing and blotting paper. For there was something very comfortable in having plenty of stationary.
~ Charles Dickens
There never was such a goose.
~ Charles Dickens
There never was such a goose. Bob said he didn't believe there ever was such a goose cooked. Its tenderness and flavour, size and cheapness, were the themes of universal admiration. Eked out by apple-sauce and mashed potatoes, it was a sufficient dinner for the whole family; indeed, as Mrs. Cratchit said with great delight (surveying one small atom of a bone upon the dish), they hadn't ate it all at last!
~ Charles Dickens
Enough House', said I; 'that's a curious name, miss.' 'Yes,' she replied; 'but it meant more than it said. It meant, when it was given, that whoever had this house could want nothing else.
~ Charles Dickens
He was a prosperous old bachelor, and his open window looked into a prosperous little garden and orchard, and there was a prosperous iron safe let into the wall at the side of his fireplace, and I did not doubt that heaps of his prosperity were put away in it in bags.
~ Charles Dickens
There was once a king, and he had a queen; and he was the manliest of his gender, and she was the loveliest of hers. They had nineteen children, and were always having more.
~ Charles Dickens
there is excellent provision made of dainty new bread, crusty twists, cool fresh butter, thin slices of ham, tongue, and German sausage, and delicate little rows of anchovies nestling in parsley, not to mention new-laid eggs, to be brought up warm in a napkin, and hot buttered toast. For
~ Charles Dickens
What is the point of having all that money if you are never going to enjoy it?
~ Charles Dickens