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Avarice is always poor.
Avarice is a deadly sin.
Avarice, the spur of industry.
Avarice is fear sheathed in gold.
Avarice, the sphincter of the heart.
Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
The avarice of mankind is insatiable.
I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
Avarice is the vice of declining years.
Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
Frugality is one thing, avarice another.
Those who covet much suffer from the want.
Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.
Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
Money does not sate Avarice, but stimulates it.
Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.
Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice.
Avarice increases with the increasing pile of gold.
Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.
Avarice is more directly opposed to thrift than generosity is.
Avarice, where it has full dominion, excludes every other passion.
What must be the wealth that avarice, aided by power, cannot exhaust!
It is but shaping the bribe to the taste, and every one has his price.
There are few retreats, that can escape the penetrating eye of avarice.
Holy poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this world.
It is surely very narrow policy that supposes money to be the chief good.
We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.
Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.
Avarice and Happiness never saw each other, how then should they become acquainted?
'Maneater' is about N.Y.C. in the '80s. It's about greed, avarice, and spoiled riches.
When money is unreasonably coveted, it is a disease of the mind which is called avarice.
Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.
Avarice starves its possessor to fatten those who come after, and who are eagerly awaiting the demise of the accumulator.
The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
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.
I have nothing against rich brothers and sisters. Pray for 'em every day. But callousness and indifference, greed and avarice is something that's shot through all of us.
The invention of money opened a new field to human avarice by giving rise to usury and the practice of lending money at interest while the owner passes a life of idleness.
Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations, that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of a free and undivided Republic.
For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.
Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.
Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings.
I learned how to comport myself among trolls, elves, hobbits or goblins. I learned that a friend can be lost to greed and avarice. I learned that solving riddles may be as important a survival skill as bowmanship. I know how to talk to a dragon, and that it's best not to.
One of the things you learn as a journalist is that when there's no accountability, we humans are capable of tremendous avarice and venality. That's true of union bosses - and of corporate tycoons. Unions, even flawed ones, can provide checks and balances for flawed corporations.
I entreat masters to live a good life and faithfully to instruct their scholars, especially that they may love God and learn to give themselves to knowledge, in order to promote His honour, the welfare of the state, and their own salvation, but not for the sake of avarice or the praise of man.
I know no man who feels deeper disgust than I do at the ambition, avarice, and profligacy of the priesthood, as well because every one of these vices is odious in itself, as because each of them separately and all of them together are utterly abhorrent in men making profession of a life dedicated to God.
We also must pull from our highest ideals of justice and protect against those ills that destabilized our economy - like predatory lending, over-leveraged financial institutions and the unchecked avarice of the past that trumped fairness and common sense. Our platform calls for significant cuts in federal spending.