"It is the child of avarice, the brother……" — George Washington
"It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief."
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George Washington
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525 Quotes by George Washington
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The value of liberty was thus enhanced in our estimation by the difficulty of its attainment, and the worth of…
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To please everybody is impossible; were I to undertake it, I should probably please nobody.
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The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respected Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted…
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I had always hoped that this land might become a safe and agreeable asylum to the virtuous and persecuted part…
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[Let] the poor the needy and oppressed of the Earth, and those who want Land, resort to the fertile lands…
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The policy or advantage of [immigration] taking place in a body (I mean the settling of them in a body)…
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I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.
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The advancement of agriculture, commerce and manufactures, by all proper means, will not, I trust, need recommendation. But I cannot…
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Every post is honourable in which a man can serve his country.
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To place any dependence upon militia, is, assuredly, resting upon a broken staff.
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Make the most of the Indian Hemp Seed and sow it everywhere.
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The United States is in no way founded upon the Christian religion
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Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
— William Blake
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Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.
— Dante Alighieri
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Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pcanet, and other powerful tribes of our people?…
— Tecumseh
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All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of…
— Karl Marx
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What a lesson, indeed, is all history and all life to the folly and fruitlessness of pride! The Egyptian kings…
— Edwin Percy Whipple
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Avarice often produces opposite results: there are an infinite number of persons who sacrifice their property to doubtful and distant…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others…
— Michel de Montaigne
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Do not be too quick to condemn the man who no longer believes in God: for it is perhaps your…
— Thomas Merton
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It is not the want, but rather abundance that creates avarice.
— Michel de Montaigne
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Want is a growing giant whom the coat of have was never large enough to cover.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Avarice misapprehends itself almost always. There is no passion which more often will miss its aim, nor upon which the…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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