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We lost because we told ourselves we lost.
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The appreciation of the merits of art of the emotions it conveys depends upon an understanding of the meaning of life...
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Beautiful as seemed mama's face, it became more lovely when she smiled and seemed to enliven everything about her.
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The sobs and tears of joy he had not foreseen rose with such force within him that his whole body shook and…
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In order to get power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with…
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Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.
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Where there is love, there is God also.
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There are no conditions to which a man cannot become accustomed.
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To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business.
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What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen.
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You consider war to be inevitable? Very good. Let everyone who advocates war be enrolled in a special regiment of advance-guards, for…
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Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is…
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Popular Covetous quotes from across the collection:
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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…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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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