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Patience won’t kill
The success of love is in the
Maintenance of its secrecy.
A little puncture, it bursts.
With no patience, man pricks.
With no confidence, woman bursts.
29.05.2002, pakd
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.
quote by Christopher Marlowe
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Covetousness is always filling a bottomless vessel.
Covetousness is the father of unfulfilled desires.
Fool: I go, sir, but I would not have you to think that my desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
line from Twelfth Night, Act V, Scene 1 by William Shakespeare (1601)
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True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.
quote by John Milton
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Charity gives itself rich, covetousness hoards itself poor.
As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.
quote by Daniel Defoe
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Covetousness is never satisfied till its mouth is filled with earth.
Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.
quote by John Milton
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There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth...lust. When he is strong...quarrelsomeness. When he is old...covetousness.
Reign Anger
Anger bursts when interest suffers.
Anger bursts when ego gets bruised.
To show it where you can’t, will spoil.
To show it where you can, is an evil.
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth... lust. When he is strong... quarrelsomeness. When he is old... covetousness.
Ch 08 On Rules For Conduct In Life - Admonition 14
Swallow not the deception of a foe. Purchase not conceit from a panegyrist. The one has laid out a snare for provisions and the other has opened the jaws of covetousness.
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.
quote by Michel de Montaigne
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Marriage
Marriage is totally righteous when it is kept undefiled according to the law,
So let your conducts always be without covetousness;
For you may easily be like the whoremongers and the adulterers around.
poem by Edward Kofi Louis
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Click It Once
The labour of love and the patience of hope,
Click it once to gain your view;
But the flattering words from a fool are like a cloak of covetousness.
poem by Edward Kofi Louis
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Deaf
Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy
waterspouts. Psalm 42
The waterfall in sunlight is God
talking to herself. Her voice
poured into the trees asks
nothing, to prove nothing,
and her way of asking
says by overflowing what
may not be said. The stream
unbroken at the rock’s
edge bursts with downflung
beads where daylight bursts
and drops. Though deaf, I listen
through my shoesoles, through
the stone ledge, into the water,
thrumming, into the spray and light.
poem by Brooks Haxton
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