#starves

The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable. ↗

— Theodore Parker

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True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves. ↗

— John Milton

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Poverty is like a crumb that sits at a table, and starves itself to death. ↗

— Anthony Liccione

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The year goes wrong, and tares grow strong, Hope starves without a crumb; But God's time is our harvest time, And that is sure to come. ↗

— Lewis J. Bates

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But the worst of all is, according to the old phrase, while the grass grows, the horse starves, but the man of money is the man for Nova Scotia. Those may do extremely well. ↗

— Nathaniel Smith

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