"The heart which finds life in material wealth……" — George A. Smith
"The heart which finds life in material wealth is usually certain to go farther and seek for more in the satisfaction of base and sullen appetites."
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17 Quotes by George A. Smith
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Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience…
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Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some…
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The seasons come up undisturbed by crime and war.
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To us sin has not become any less of a mystery or a pain.
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Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.
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We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.
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If we have a heart for the magnitudes of life, it will not seem vain to believe that God Himself…
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Yet none use their words more recklessly than the strong, who have not been sobered by the rebuffs and uncertainties…
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Into every soul, however purged and fenced, evil appears to have as much freedom of entrance as God Himself.
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Jesus Christ tells us that a man cannot be wrong if he argues towards God from what he finds best…
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Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!
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Let those who, still in their youth, have preserved their faith and fullness of hope, keep looking up.
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More Appetites Quotes
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The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to…
— Joseph Addison
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To give money to a woman - and here I must speak as a man - is to deny her…
— James Buchan
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I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the…
— Lord Chesterfield
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When the saint ceases to seek after holiness, purity, righteousness, truth; when he ceases to pray, stops reading the Word…
— Smith Wigglesworth
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Ashamed of the many frailties they feel within, all men endeavor to hide themselves, their ugly nakedness, from each other,…
— Bernard de Mandeville
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To change, you must face the dragon of your appetites with another dragon: the life-energy of the soul.
— Rumi
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Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger…
— Ralph Washington Sockman
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We all have hometown appetites. Every other person is a bundle of longing for the simplicities of good taste once…
— Clementine Paddleford
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Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.
— William Ruckelshaus
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I detest . . . anything over-cooked, over-herbed, over-sauced, over elaborate. Nothing can go very far wrong at table as…
— Sybille Bedford
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Whatever the situation may be, in the recollection of death there is reward and merit. For even the man engrossed…
— Al-Ghazali
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We must be careful not to let our current appetites steal away any chance we might have for a future…
— Jim Rohn
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