Christian Scriver Quote

O, my God! withhold from me the wealth to which tears and sighs and curses cleave. Better none at all than wealth like that.


Gotthold's Emblems: or Invisible things understood by things that are made. Tr. by R. Menzies (ed. 1857)


O, my God! withhold from me the wealth to which tears and sighs and curses cleave. Better none at all than wealth like that.

O, my God! withhold from me the wealth to which tears and sighs and curses cleave. Better none at all than wealth like that.

O, my God! withhold from me the wealth to which tears and sighs and curses cleave. Better none at all than wealth like that.

O, my God! withhold from me the wealth to which tears and sighs and curses cleave. Better none at all than wealth like that.