"There are few retreats, that can escape the……" — Thomas Clarkson
"There are few retreats, that can escape the penetrating eye of avarice."
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Thomas Clarkson
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8 Quotes by Thomas Clarkson
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Mankind have their local attachments. They have a particular regard for the spot, in which they were born and nurtured.
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It appears first, that liberty is a natural, and government an adventitious right, because all men were originally free.
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Most of the slaves, who were thus unconditionally freed, returned without any solicitation to their former masters, to serve them,…
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We cannot suppose therefore that God has made an order of beings, with such mental qualities and powers, for the…
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When mankind first saw the necessity of government, it is probable that many had conceived the desire of ruling.
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Neither can men, by the same principles, be considered as lands, goods, or houses, among possessions. It is necessary that…
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Should slavery be abolished there, (and it is an event, which, from these circumstances, we may reasonably expect to be…
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More Avarice Quotes
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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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It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.
— George Washington
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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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