We've found 13 quotes for 'avarice' (0.178 seconds):
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"avarice is the sphincter of the heart." »Matthew Green (c. 1737)
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"Ambition is but avarice on stilts and masked." »Walter Savage Landor
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"My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them" »Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
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"Pride, envy, avarice -- these are the sparks have set on fire the souls of man." »Alighieri Dante
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"avarice, envy, pride,
Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all
On Fire." »Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
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"avarice, envy, pride,Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of allOn Fire." »Dante Alighieri
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"Through avarice a man loses his understanding, and by his thirst for wealth he gives pain to the inhabitants of both worlds." »The Hitopadesa
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"In all the world there is no vice Less prone t?excess than avarice; It neither cares for food nor clothing: Nature?s content with little, that with nothing." »Butler
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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." »Francesco Petrarch
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"Every man ought to be supposed a knave, and to have no other end, in all his actions, but private interest. By this interest we must govern him, and by means of it, make him cooperate to public good, notwithstanding his unsatiable avarice and ambition." »Alexander Hamilton, P. 217 - A History of the American People by P. Johnson
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"Where today are the Pequot Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pokanoket, and many other once powerful tribes of our people They have vanished before the avarice and the oppression of the White Man, as snow before a summer sun. Will we let ourselves be destroyed in our turn without a struggle, give up our homes, our country bequeathed to us by the Great Spirit, the graves of our dead and everything that is dear to us I know you will cry with me, NEVER NEVER." »Tecumseh
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"Heaven?s gate is narrow and minute,* It cannot be perceived by foolish men, Blinded by vain illusions of the world. E?en the clear-sighted, who discern the way And seek to enter, find the portal barred And hard to be unlocked. Its massive bolts Are pride and passion, avarice and lust." »Mahabharata
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"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other." »John Adams
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