#avarice

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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.


Hans Urs von Balthasar


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Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.


Thornton Wilder


#envy #every #home #pride

Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.


William Wordsworth


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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.


John A. Logan


#coming #cost #forgotten #free #generations

I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.


Edward Moore


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The best reason for committing loathsome and detestable acts--and let's face it, I am considered something of an expert in this field--is purely for their own sake. Monetary gain is all very well, but it dilutes the taste of wickedness to a lower level that is obtainable by anyone with an overdeveloped sense of avarice. True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good--and we all know how rare that is...


Jasper Fforde


#detestable #dilutes #evil #expert #good

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.


Cory Booker


#also #avarice #calls #common #common sense

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.


Charles Caleb Colton


#extravagance #more #ruined #souls #than

Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.


Cyril Connolly


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The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.


Pliny the Elder


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