{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/sil/scw/scw12.htm","path":"chr/sil/scw/scw12.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/sil/scw/scw12.htm","text":"293 (II. 56)\n POVERTY AND RICHES\n| The man who, what he hath, hath not, To all things stands indifferent, He is most poor when he is rich, Most rich when he is indigent. | \n294 (III. 69)\n THE SAINT'S WEALTH\n| Be poor! On earth the Saint hath naught Save one thing, which unwillingly He needs must call his own, to wit, This Body of Mortality. | \n295 (II. 148)\n THE POOR IN SPIRIT\n| That man is truly poor who stands Detached from all things, loose, adrift: Were God to offer him Himself I know he would refuse the gift. | \n296 (III. 139)\n MAN FINDETH WHAT HE SEEKETH\n| The poor man seeketh God, the rich man seeketh wealth: 'Tis gold indeed the poor man finds, the rich man filth. | \n297 (V. 157)\n THE RICH MAN IS TRULY POOR\n| When of his poverty he maketh much ado, Doubt not the Rich Man's word\u2014he speaketh what is true. | \n298 (VI. 185)\n OUR WEALTH MUST BE WITHIN US\n| Be all thy Wealth within thyself. If lie thy riches otherwhere, Yea, though thy fortune were the world, Then art thou rich in naught but Care. | \n299 (VI. 189)\n TO DESIRE EVERYTHING IS TO HAVE NOTHING\n| Man, if desire for Everything Possesseth all thy thought, Then art thou poor as beggars are And still possessest Naught. | \n300 (VI. 86)\n WHO CRAVETH ALL HATH NAUGHT\n| Who craveth Naught hath All. Who yearneth to possess The riches of the world, he still is penniless. | \n301 (VI. 84)\n THE GREATEST WEALTH AND GAIN\n| Most Wealth hath he who Wealth doth most disdain, And gaineth most who most renounceth Gain. | \n302 (VI. 168)\n THE WISE MAN HATH NAUGHT IN COFFERS\n| Naught doth the Wise Man heard in guarded treasuries: Riches that can be lost he never counteth his. | \n303 (VI. 99)\n THE TREASURY OF THE WISE MAN AND THE MISER\n| Wise Men are wisely rich\u2014the put Their gold into a treasure-chest: The Miser's gold is in his heart\u2014 His heart hath never any rest. | \n304 (VI. 167)\n HE WHO IS TRULY RICH\n| Much having is not being rich. The Wealthy Man is he Who views the loss of all he hath With equanimity. | \n305 (VI. 100)\n THE WISE MAN FORESTALLS THE THIEF\n| The Wise Man doth not wait until His fortune is bereft: He steals his foretune from himself And so forestalls the theft. | \n306 (VI. 103)\n NO PROGRESS WHEN HEAVILY LADEN\n| Storm-foundered seamen jettison The weightiest cargo in the hold; And thinkest thou to win to Heaven O'erladen with a freight of gold? | \n307 (VI. 179)\n HOW MISERS AND WISE MEN ACT\n| The Miser leaves his gold at last, Heirs seize on his inheritance: The Wise Man to the other world Sends on his riches in advance. | \n308 (V. 132)\n THE UNCONCERNED MAN SUFFERETH NO HURT\n| The man who in this world claims nothing for his own, Suffereth no great loss when all his house falls down. | \n309 (V. 156)\n WHO DESIRETH MUCH, LACKETH MUCH\n| Who hath enough, hath all. Who craveth more and more, Betrayeth by his want how scanty is his store. | \n310 (VI. 181)\n THE ESTIMATION OF THE FOOL AND THE WISE MAN\n| The Fool thinks he is rich enough If he possess a sack of gold: The Wise Man knoweth he is poor With riches not the world can hold. |","title":"XII POVERTY AND RICHES","type":"page"}