Avarice Quotes
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Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
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The avarice of mankind is insatiable.
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We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.
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Avarice is a deadly sin.
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For avarice begins where poverty ends.
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The trade of the petty usurer is hated with most reason: it makes a profit from currency itself, instead of making it from the process which currency was meant to serve. Their common characteristic is obviously their sordid avarice.
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The cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.
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Those whose days are consumed in the low pursuits of avarice, or the gaudy frivolties of fashion, unobservant of nature's lovelinessof demarcation, nor on which side thereof an intermediate form should lie.
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Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.
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A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal of avarice.
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Avarice is especially, I suppose, a disease of the imagination.
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The avarice of mankind is insatiable; at one time two obols was pay enough; but now, when this sum has become customary, men always want more and more without end.
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Accumulating knowledge is a form of avarice and lends itself to another version of the Midas story ...man [is] so avid for knowledge that everything that he touches turns to facts; his faith becomes theology; his love becomes lechery; his wisdom becomes science; pursuing meaning, he ignores truth.
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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.
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We are at best but stewards of what we falsely call our own; yet avarice is so insatiable that it is not in the power of liberality to content it.
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To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.
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So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice.
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Avarice, where it has full dominion, excludes every other passion.
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Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
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Avarice is the most oppose of all characters to that of God Almighty, whose alone it is to give and not receive.
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There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices tempt you by the rewards they offer.
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I am not fighting machinery as such, but the madness of thinking that machinery saves labor. Men save labor until thousands of them are without work and die of hunger on the streets. I want to secure employment and livelihood not only to part of the human race, but for all. I will not have the enrichment of a few at the expense of the community. At present the machine is helping a small minority to live on the exploitation of the masses. The motive force of this minority is not humanity or love of their kind, but greed and avarice.
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It is only luxury and avarice that make poverty grievous to us; for it is a very small matter that does our business, and when we have provided against cold, hunger, and thirst, all the rest is but vanity and excess.
