#covet

The Madden NFL franchise holds a special place in popular culture and the cover is a coveted position for players all over the league. I'm honored to be the first cover athlete chosen by Madden NFL fans and it's a great way to cap off an amazing year for the Saints and the city of New Orleans. ↗

— Drew Brees

#athlete #be the first #cap #chosen #city

Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous. ↗

— Thomas Browne

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As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares. ↗

— Daniel Defoe

#evil #poverty #root #snares #worst

I want to see as many movies as I can and I covet a lot of weird influential movies. ↗

— Kat Dennings

#i #i can #influential #lot #many

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal. ↗

— Napolean Hill

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When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal. ↗

— Napoleon Hill

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Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness. ↗

— Christopher Marlowe

#covetousness #excess #wealth

I don't know exactly what covetise is, but in my experience it is not so much desiring someone else's virtue or happiness as rejecting it, taking offence at the beauty of it. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#happiness #beauty

The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#brave man #covetous #employ #employer #man

Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness. ↗

— John Milton

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