"Avarice is always poor." — Samuel Johnson

Avarice is always poor. - Samuel Johnson

"Avarice is always poor."

— Samuel Johnson

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1,266 Quotes by Samuel Johnson

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Your aspirations are your possibilities.
It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either…
The violence of war admits no distinction; the lance, that is lifted at guilt and power, will sometimes fall on…
Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.
To a people warlike and indigent, an incursion into a rich country is never hurtful.
The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.
The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought…
Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.
Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.
The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect…

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Those who either from imprudence or want of sagacity avoid doing so, are always overwhelmed with servitude and poverty; for… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Ah! believers, you are a tempted people. You are always poor and needy. And God intends it should be so,… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne
Poverty, therefore, was comparative. One measured it by a sliding scale. One was always poor, in terms of those who… — Margaret Drabble
Whoever desires is always poor. — Claudius Claudianus
The covetous man is always poor. — Claudius Claudianus
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