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Quotes
for
the Journey:
Covetousness
Every ambitious
person is a captive
and every covetous one a pauper.
Arab proverb
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The covetous
person is full of fear; and he or she
who lives in fear
will ever be a slave. -Horace
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Covetousness bursts the sack
and
spills the grain. -Walter Scott
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| I believe that if we're going to deal with
covetousness, we must look at it as a symptom, not as a
trait itself. It's great to say "Thou shalt not
covet," but we need to ask why we're coveting. We
need to examine the ideas and ideals that the person who
covets holds dear. We need to look at the whole package,
not just the covetous behavior itself. The best thing we
can do for a person who covets is not just point out the
fact that he or she is doing something he or she shouldn't
do, but to help them find out why they're doing so. If
they believe that people will admire them more if they
were married to a certain person or driving a certain car,
we need to let them know that we admire them already for
exactly who they are. They don't need to be anything else.
-Tom Walsh |
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| The evils of the body are,
murder, theft, and adultery; of the tongue, lying, slander, abuse, and
idle talk; of the mind, covetousness, hatred, and error.
-the Buddha |
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| Covetousness
is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet --the first vice
in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
-Michel de Montaigne |
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| The covetous person pines in
plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water, and yet thirsty.
-Thomas Adams |
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| If money be not thy
servant, it will be thy master. The covetous person cannot
so properly be said to possess wealth, as that it may be said to
possess him or her. -Francis
Bacon |
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| Covetous people are
fools, miserable wretches, buzzards, mad people who live by
themselves, in perpetual slavery, fear, suspicion, sorrow,
discontent, with more of gall than honey in their enjoyments; who
are rather possessed by their money than possessors of it.
-Robert Burton |
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The covetous person
is like a camel with a great hunch on its back; heaven's gate must
be made higher and broader, or he or she will hardly get
in. -Thomas Adams |
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It was with good
reason that God commanded through Moses that the vineyard and
harvest were not to be gleaned to the last grape or grain; but
something to be left for the poor. For covetousness is never
to be satisfied; the more it has, the more it wants. Such
insatiable ones injure themselves, and transform God's blessings
into evil. -Martin Luther |
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There is not a vice
which more effectually contracts and deadens the feelings, which
more completely makes a man's affections center in himself, and
excludes all others from partaking in them, than the desire of
accumulating possessions. When the desire has once gotten
hold on the heart, it shuts out all other considerations, but such
as may promote its view. In its zeal for the attainment of
its end, it is not delicate in the choice of means. As it
closes the heart, so also it clouds the understanding. It
cannot discern, between right and wrong; it takes evil for good,
and good for evil; it calls darkness light, and light
darkness. Beware, then, of the beginning of covetousness,
for you know not where it will
end. -Richard Mant |
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Covetousness, by a
greediness of getting more, deprives itself of the true end of
getting; it loses the enjoyment of what it has
got. -Thomas Sprat |
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Covetousness teaches
people to be cruel and crafty, industrious and evil, full of care
and malice; and after all this, it is for no good to itself, for
it dares not spend those heaps of treasure which it has
snatched. -Jeremy Taylor |
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| If
money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The
covetous person cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as
that may be said to possess him or
her. -Francis Bacon |
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