ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD AVARICE
From Old French, from Latin avaritia, from avārus covetous, from avēre to crave.
10 QUOTES WITH «AVARICE»
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avarice.
Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.
Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.
Avarice is the vice of declining years.
Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice.
Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings.
There are few retreats, that can escape the penetrating eye of avarice.
Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
I know no man who feels deeper disgust than I do at the ambition, avarice, and profligacy of the priesthood, as well because every one of these vices is odious in itself, as because each of them separately and all of them together are utterly abhorrent in men making profession of a life dedicated to God.
There's something unique about the United States, a sense of individual rights and freedoms, and a sense of social and civic responsibility that we contributed to so much of the world. We lost that mission in the 1980s and 1990s, when we entered a gilded age, and the culture of individualism became a culture of avarice.
I entreat masters to live a good life and faithfully to instruct their scholars, especially that they may love God and learn to give themselves to knowledge, in order to promote His honour, the welfare of the state, and their own salvation, but not for the sake of avarice or the praise of man.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «AVARICE»
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avarice in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
avarice and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Avarice and the Avaricious
This book is a translation of one of the wittiest pieces of medieval Arabic prose.
Three men, an international movie star, an arms dealer, and a pharmacueticals giant, meet in a bar in a French Riviera Hotel.
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Greed and
Avarice: When What One Has Is Never Enough
He is a fan of the works of Dan Brown and Tom Clancy and hopes to bring the same kind of intrigue and excitement to his own novels, which are centered in and around the modern business world.
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The Tides of
Avarice: A Sagaria Legend
Sylvester has mistakenly received the most sought after treasure map ever.
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The Early History of Greed: The Sin of
Avarice in Early ...
In this first full-length study of the early history of greed, Richard Newhauser shows that avaritia, the sin of greed for possessions, has a much longer history, and is more important for an understanding of the Middle Ages, than has ...
The book is about Michael narrating his ordeal from a prison, regarding his involvement with two rich girls at the university.
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Pride and
Avarice: A Novel
But Miles is a dangerous enemy and he vows to take the Clegg empire apart piece by piece. A rich read full of wit, Pride and Avarice is sure to be Coleridge’s biggest selling book to date.
But avarice is related to all kinds of sins, for 1 Tim. 6:1o says: "Covetousness is
the root of all evils." And we understand covetousness to mean avarice, as
Augustine says in his Literal Commentary on Genesis: Therefore, avarice is not a
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Thomas Aquinas, University of Oxford Brian Davies O.P. Regent of Studies Blackfriars College, 2003
K. Marshall. Penn turned around, his blonde hair almost as white as the snow.
His brother came up to him, smiling at me. “I'll see you later then?” He smiled. I
nodded, watching him walk away, his arm around his brother's shoulders. “What
are ...
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Beyond the Dreams of
Avarice: A Novel ... - Primary Source ...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «AVARICE»
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avarice is used in the context of the following news items.
Culture, Avarice in 'The Offshoot'
The Offshoot (2008) by Priority Project Publishing is a uniquely woven narrative that lies between a short story, a novella or a novel. It is too ... «AllAfrica.com, Jul 15»
The illusions of hope
One has to look no further than the Treaty of Versailles, which neither pacified nor weakened Germany, and led to its avarice and the ... «Israel Hayom, Jul 15»
Solutions start with us
Multinational corporations care more for avarice than they do altruism, and they peddle influence to drive policy both at home and abroad. «The Spokesman Review, Jul 15»
The Christian Roots of Modern Environmentalism
Censorious Presbyterians attacked greed and avarice with a special vengeance, as the sins that prompted Eve to reach for the forbidden fruit ... «TIME, Jul 15»
“The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro”
No abuse, no outrage whether in taste, sport or avarice, can now hide itself from the all-pervading light. The iron shoe, and crippled foot of ... «Sri Lanka Guardian, Jul 15»
One solution for the Greek debt crisis
When will our race evolve beyond greed and avarice? Stig Lindberg. Kailua, Hawaii. The opinions expressed in this letter to the editor are the ... «The Japan Times, Jul 15»
What Doesn't The National Assembly Understand By Change
An end to avarice, executive lawlessness and incompetence are the CHANGES Nigerians want and must demand. Ogbonda writes from ... «The Guardian Nigeria, Jul 15»
Seeing is not believing
... we see even more stumbling blocks, from the lures, pressures and threats of the world, to our own selfishness, hedonism, pride, sloth, avarice ... «The Manila Times, Jul 15»
The Kentucky Gubernatorial Derby
Fark is what Huffington Post could be, absent the avarice of its founder. Curtis picked up a Berkeley/Columbia MBA along the way. Since I'm ... «Pleasanton Weekly, Jul 15»
Frederick Douglass on the 4th of July
... you maintain a system as barbarous and dreadful as ever stained the character of a nation — a system begun in avarice, supported in pride, ... «Wesleyan Connection, Jul 15»
