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...they have never affirm'd any thing, concerning the Cause, till the Trial was past: whereas, to do it before, is a most…
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Greediness of getting more deprives... the enjoyment of what it had got.
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[In the Royal Society, there] has been, a constant Resolution, to reject all the amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style: to return…
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What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself.
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Passion is the great mover and spring of the soul. When men’s passions are strongest, they may have great and noble effects;…
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Invention is an Heroic thing, and plac'd above the reach of a low, and vulgar Genius. It requires an active, a bold,…
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A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles.
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All false practices and affections of knowledge are more odious to God, and deserve to be so to men, than any want…
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Greediness of getting more deprives... the enjoyment of what it had got.
— Thomas Sprat
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None in this age will amass wealth except those having five traits ofcharacter. High hopes; abnormal greediness; excessive miserliness, lack of fearing…
— Sufyan al-Thawri
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Form no covetous desire, so that the demon of greediness may not deceive thee, and the treasure of the world may not…
— Zoroaster
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Were parties here divided merely by a greediness for office,...to take a part with either would be unworthy of a reasonable or…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Greediness consists in ravishing the goods of another through violence or cunning, as in the two noble professions of the conqueror and…
— Augustin Thierry
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To stop suffering, stop greediness. Greediness is a source of suffering.
— Gautama Buddha
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Allah the Exalted loves him who forgoes worldly life, the Angels love him who rejects the vices, and the Muslims love him…
— Uthman ibn Affan
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Good is not good, unless A thousand it possess, But doth waste with greediness.
— John Donne
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