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What advantages a rich man has! All the comforts, luxuries and amusements of life, independence and security, best education, social position, leisure for study and the cultivation of art and music, the joys of , importance and power! Yet wealth may be a curse; it often leads man to self-indulgence, , and vice, the vanity of display and arrogant contempt of his less fortunate fellow men. Wealth in itself neither a curse nor a blessing; it depends entirely on how it is used. Wealth is power: the hands of a knave or a fool, it is evil in the hands of a wise good man. But, on the other hand, it is a blessing to himself and his fellows.
No doubts the blessings of health. But often, those who have it and have never known illness undervalue and, by carelessness or worse, lose it. It is when we have lost our health that we it most. Then we realise that health means happiness, efficiency and success, during ill-health means misery, incompetence failure. Yet some brave souls work and succeed despite ill health, but at what a cost of and pain!
Wisdom is a more precious gift than either health or wealth, for neither will be blessing without wisdom. A fool may inherit a fortune, but he will squander it in a few or use it to damage himself body and soul. Likewise, a fool may have splendid physical health, he will do no good with it and will probably lose it. But a wise man will health and wealth to the best advantage.