Beggar Quote by Lord Byron Download Open image “A thirst for gold, The beggar's vice, which can but overwhelm The meanest hearts.” — Lord Byron ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Beggar Gold Heart Thirst Vices
Gold is the most precious of all commodities; gold constitutes treasure, and he who possesses it has all he needs in the world, as… — Christopher Columbus Copy Share Image
The lust of gold succeeds the rage of conquest; The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless! The last corruption of degenerate man. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A bruised heart that chooses to beat with a passion for God amid pulsing pain and confusion may just be the most expensive offering… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
Gold, for the instant, lost its luster in his eyes, for there were countless treasures of the heart which it could never purchase — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“…We don't get to choose our own hearts. We can't make ourselves want what's good for us or what's good for other people. We don't get to choose the people we are…What if one happens to be possessed of a heart that can't be trusted--? What if the heart, for its own unfathomable reasons, leads one willfully and in a… — Tartt Donna Copy Share
Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise. — Christopher Columbus Copy Share Image
Your thief looks Exactly like the rest, or rather better; 'Tis only at the bar, and in the dungeon, That wise men know your… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“We of the craft are all crazy. Some are affected by gaiety, others by melancholy, but all are more or less touched.” — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Here's a sigh to those who love me,And a smile to those who hate;And, whatever sky's above me,Here's a heart for every fate. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
For most men (till by losing rendered sager), Will back their own opinions by a wager — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
If some beggar steals a bridle he'll be hung by a man who's stolen a horse. There's no surer justice in the world than… — Peire Cardenal Copy Share Image
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Poets and beggars, musicians and prophets, warriors and scoundrels, all creatures of that unbridled reality, we have had to ask but little of our… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
Hurrah for revolution and more cannon-shot! A beggar upon horseback lashes a beggar on foot. Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again! The beggars… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You obviously don't know what an Old Man of the Sea great wealth is. It is not a fat purse and time to spend it. Its owner finds himself beset on every side, at every hour, wherever he goes, by persistent pleaders, like beggars in Bombay, each demanding that he invest or give away part of his wealth. He becomes… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share
Make of the Silence your to-do tasks, of the compassion your wealth and of the meditation your beggar's bowl. — Guru Nanak Copy Share Image
Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
I'll not meddle with it. It makes a man a coward: a man cannot steal but it accuseth him; a man cannot swear but it checks him; a man cannot lie with his neighbor's wife but it detects him. 'Tis a blushing, shamefaced spirit that mutinies in a man's bosom. It fills a man full of obstacles. It made me… — William Shakespeare Copy Share
A beggar through the world am I, From place to place I wander by. Fill up my pilgrim's scrip for me, For Christ's sweet… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
