Covetous Quotes
42 quotes by 35 authors
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The reply is, that one ought to be both feared and loved, but as it is difficult for the two to go together, it is…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
— Ben Jonson
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Speaking generally, men are ungrateful, fickle, hypocritical, fearful odanger and covetous ogain.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous.
— Thomas Browne
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The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.
— Sun Tzu
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One be covetous when he has little, much or anything between, for covetousness comes from the heart, not from the circumstances of life.
— Charles Caldwell Ryrie
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Be thrifty, but not covetous.
— George Herbert
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Everyone asks me 'how it feels to fly.' It feels like riding in a high powered automobile, minus bumping over the rough roads, continually signaling…
— Harriet Quimby
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The covetous man is ever in want.
— Horace
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The covetous man is always poor.
— Claudius Claudianus
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The great danger in today's world, pervaded as it is by consumerism, is the desolation and anguish born of a complacent yet covetous heart, the…
— Pope Francis
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Covetous men need money least, yet they most affect it; but prodigals, who need it most have the least regard for it.
— Alexander Wilson
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Ahab cast a covetous eye at Naboth's vineyard, David a lustful eye at Bathsheba. The eye is the pulse of the soul; as physicians judge…
— Thomas Adams
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The covetous man feareth not God. This also is plain from the word because it setteth covetousness and the fear of God in direct opposition.…
— John Bunyan
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Was the earth made to preserve a few covetous, proud men to live at ease, and for them to bag and barn up the treasures…
— Gerrard Winstanley
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The covetous man is like a camel with a great hunch on his back; heaven's gate must be made Higher and broader, or he will…
— Thomas Adams
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The appointment of Jesus to be the Savior of the world was contested by one of the other sons of God. He was called Lucifer,…
— Milton R. Hunter
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For the wise man delights in establishing his merit, the brave man likes to show his courage in action, the covetous man is quick at…
— Sun Tzu
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Study universal holiness of life. Your whole usefulness depends on this, for your sermons last but an hour or two, your life preaches all the…
— Robert Murray M'Cheyne
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The covetous person is full of fear; and he or she who lives in fear will ever be a slave.
— Horace
Who Wrote These Covetous Quotes
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