Avarice, the sphincter of the heart.
quote by Matthew Green
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Avarice is the sphincter of the heart.
quote by Matthew Green
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Galatea Encore
As though the mercury's under its tongue, it won't
talk. As though with the mercury in its sphincter,
immobile, by a leaf-coated pond
a statue stands white like a blight of winter.
After such snow, there is nothing indeed: the ins
and outs of centuries, pestered heather.
That's what coming full circle means -
when your countenance starts to resemble weather,
when Pygmalion's vanished. And you are free
to cloud your folds, to bare the navel.
Future at last! That is, bleached debris
of a glacier amid the five-lettered "never."
Hence the routine of a goddess, nee
alabaster, that lets roving pupils gorge on
the heart of color and the temperature of the knee.
That's what it looks like inside a virgin.
poem by Joseph Brodsky
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God's....
what you have taken which is
not yours
shall be returned
with all the penalties and interest
and surcharges
what you have given with a meek heart
shall be returned too
in the same manner
but this Time it is God
that gives you more than
you can ever expect
must you choose greed then?
must you stick to avarice?
you give a seed
then you shall have a tree filled with fruits
and even birds
nest there and find their rest
poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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Avarice and happiness never saw each other.
English proverbs
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I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
quote by Edward Moore
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Avarice, the spur of industry.
quote by David Hume
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It is not want but abundance that makes avarice.
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
When all other sins are old avarice is still young.
Even the fountains thirst. [Avarice is never satisfied.]
Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.
quote by Thornton Wilder
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Avarice is the vice of declining years.
quote by George Bancroft
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Gambling is the son of avarice and the father of despair.
Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice.
quote by Andreas Capellanus
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