Abraham Cowley Quotes

Allah never gave such as this to any people without that giving rise to mutual envy and hatred.

I don't think that humankind is worthy of trust when we can't let go of war, draw borders between neighboring countries, seek to become richer than others, find joy in defeating others at sports, and choose someone of the opposite gender based on their appearance.

Avarice increases with the increasing pile of gold.

Gold thou mayst safely touch; but if it stick Unto thy hands, it woundeth to the quick.

Avarice is fear sheathed in gold.

Genius scorns the power of gold: it is wrong. Gold is the war-scythe on its chariot, which mows down the millions of its foes, and gives free passage to the sun-coursers with which it leaves those heavenly fields of light for the gross battlefields of earth.

But what a cruel thing is war to separate and destroy families and friends.

Of all the vices, avarice is the most generally detested; it is the effect of an avidity common to all men; it is because men hate those from whom they can expect nothing. The greedy misers rail at sordid misers.

But any man who walks in the way of power and property is bound to meet hate.

The accursed hunger for gold.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

There are few retreats, that can escape the penetrating eye of avarice.

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

Avarice, the spur of industry.

Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.

Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.

Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.

The Puritans were obsessed with the dangers of wealth.

Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.