"There is no sin coveting things are of……" — Lady Gregory
"There is no sin coveting things are of no great use or profit, but would show out good and have some grandeur around them."
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52 Quotes by Lady Gregory
Lady Gregory has 52 quotes on this site.
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It's a grand thing to be able to take your money in your hand and to think no more of…
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Everything that is bad, the falling sickness - God save the mark - or the like, should be at its…
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It is the old battle, between those who use a toothbrush and those who don't.
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The way most people fail is in not keeping up the heart.
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There is many a man without learning will get the better of a college-bred man, and will have better words,…
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Every day in the year there comes some malice into the world, and where it comes from is no good…
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Every trick is an old one, but with a change of players, a change of dress, it comes out as…
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I feel more and more the time wasted that is not spent in Ireland.
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It takes madness to find out madness.
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Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or…
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Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute…
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Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.
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More Coveting Quotes
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The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country…
— Sun Tzu
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We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.
— Ovid
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Stubborn selfishness leads otherwise good people to fight over herds, patches of sand, and strippings of milk. All this results…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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I'm going to get up every morning at 6:30 to work out. Then, when I've kept with it all week,…
— Molly Sims
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MOST of the ugliness in the human narrative comes from a distorted quest to possess beauty. COVETING begins with appreciating…
— Shane Claiborne
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Well-being is possible to the degree to which one has overcome one's narcissism; to the degree to which one is…
— Erich Fromm
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We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those denied us.
— Ovid
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Old school feminism, coveting social power, is blind to woman's cosmic sexual power.
— Camille Paglia
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What does he do, Clarice? What is the first and principal thing he does, what need does he serve by…
— Thomas Harris
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Greed and desire Not peace, but fire Coveting creation Created damnation Pulled alongside A gate thrown too wide Now our…
— Kiersten White
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The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's…
— Erma Bombeck
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The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's…
— Erma Bombeck
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