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• The miser is the man who starves himself and everybody else, in order to worship wealth in its dead form, as distinct from its living form.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Order, Greed

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2012). “The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton”, p.112, Ignatius Press

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• The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Passion, Greed, Decay

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• The Blessed Sacrament is the magnet of souls. There is a mutual attraction between Jesus and the souls of men. Mary drew Him down from heaven. Our nature attracted Him rather than the nature of angels. Our misery caused Him to stoop to our lowness. Even our sins had a sort of attraction for the abundance of His mercy and the predilection of His grace. Our repentance wins Him to us. Our love makes earth a paradise to Him; and our souls lure Him as gold lures the miser, with irresistible fascination

  Frederick William Faber

  Jesus, Blessed, Angel

  Frederick William Faber (1855). “The blessed sacrament: or, The works and ways of God”, p.510

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• He who cares only for himself in youth will be a very niggard in manhood, and a wretched miser in old age.

  Josiah Johnson Hawes

  Age, Who Cares, Youth

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• I will not cede more power to the state. I will not willingly cede more power to anyone, not to the state, not to General Motors, not to the CIO. I will hoard my power like a miser, resisting every effort to drain it away from me. I will then use my power, as I see fit. I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arived at yesterday at the voting booth. That is a program of sorts, is it not? It is certainly program enough to keep conservatives busy, and Liberals at bay. And the nation free.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Life, Mean, Power

  "Up from Liberalism". Book by William F. Buckley Jr., 1959.

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• If someone is gay and is searching for the Lord and has good will, then who am I to judge him? ... The problem is not having this tendency, no, we must be brothers and sisters to one another. The problem is in making a lobby of this tendency: a lobby of misers, a lobby of politicians, a lobby of masons, so many lobbies.

  Pope Francis

  Brother, Gay, Judging

  Press conference of Pope Francis during the return flight from Rio de Janeiro, w2.vatican.va. July 28, 2013.

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• I began to feel that I lived on a higher plane than the skeptics of the ground; one that was richer because of its very association with the element of danger they dreaded, because it was freer of the earth to which they were bound. In flying, I tasted a wine of the gods of which they could know nothing. Who valued life more highly, the aviators who spent it on the art they loved, or these misers who doled it out like pennies through their antlike days? I decided that if I could fly for ten years before I was killed in a crash, it would be a worthwhile trade for an ordinary life time.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Art, Wine, Years

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• Therefore, in order not to have to rob his subjects, to be able to defend himself, not to become poor and contemptible, and not to be forced to become rapacious, a prince must consider it of little importance if he incurs the name of miser, for this is one of the vices that permits him to rule.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Order, Vices, Littles

  "The Portable Machiavelli".

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• Misers are very kind people: they amass wealth for those who wish their death.

  Stanisław I Leszczyński

  Death, People, Wish

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• Real bibliophiles do not put their books on shelves for people to look at or handle. They have no desire to show off their darlings, or to amaze people with their possessions. They keep their prized books hidden away in a secret spot to which they resort stealthily, like a Caliph visiting his harem, or a church elder sneaking into a bar. To be a book collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope-fiend with those of a miser.

  Robertson Davies

  Real, Book, Dope

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• Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat. Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.

  Publius Attius Varus

  Men, Fame, He Man

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• So precious life is! Even to the old, the hours are as a miser's coins!

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Life, Age, Coins

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1970). “The Works of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Poems”

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• It world be well had we more misers than we have among us.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  World, Economy, Wells

  Oliver Goldsmith, John Aikin (1809). “Letters from a citizen of the world (concluded). The Bee, a select collection of essays, on the most interesting and entertaining subjects”, p.300

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• When I caution you against becoming a miser, I do not therefore advise you to become a prodigal or a spendthrift.

  Horace

  Becoming, Wealth, Caution

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• When a miser contents himself with giving nothing, and saving what he has got, and is in other respects guilty of no injustice, he is, perhaps, of all bad men the least injurious to society; the evil he does is properly nothing more than the omission of the good he might do. If, 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.

  Claude Adrien Helvetius

  Hate, Men, Omission

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• The cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Cunning, Cleverness, Imbecility

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• There is in even the most selfish passion a large element of self-abnegation. It is startling to realize that what we call extreme self-seeking is actually self-renunciation. The miser, health addict, glory chaser and their like are not far behind the selfless in the exercise of self-sacrifice.

  Eric Hoffer

  Selfish, Passion, Exercise

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• Men are misers, and women prodigal, in affection.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Women, Affection, Prodigals

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• A coward calls himself cautious, a miser thrifty.

  Seneca the Younger

  Coward, Thrifty, Cautious

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• We get the worrywart, the hypochondriac, the money-grubbing miser, the intractable negotiator... Some would say certain of these refer to the stereotypical, or 'stage' Jew. But objectively speaking, the only crime in humor is an unfunny joke.

  Alan King

  Crime, Stage, Certain

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• Groan under gold, yet weep for want of bread.

  Edward Young

  Gold, Want, Bread

  Edward Young (1831). “The Complaint, Or, Night Thoughts, on Life, Death, and Immortality: To which is Added a Paraphrase on Part of the Book of Job”, p.90

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• In this consists the difference between the character of a miser and that of a person of exact economy and assiduity. The one is anxious about small matters for their own sake; the other attends to them only in consequence of the scheme of life which he has laid down to himself.

  Adam Smith

  Character, Differences, Matter

  Adam Smith (1853). “The Theory of Moral Sentiments: Or, An Essay Towards an Analysis of the Principles by which Men Naturally Judge Concerning the Conduct and Character, First of Their Neighbours, and Afterwards of Themselves. To which is Added, a Dissertation on the Origin of Languages”, p.246

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• You never have to drag mercy out of Christ, as money from a miser.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christ, Mercy, Drag

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1873). “The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit: Sermons Preached and Revised”, p.728

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• If you want to become an infinite source of love, then go on sharing love as much as you can. Don't be a miser; only misers lose energy.

  Rajneesh

  Energy, Goes On, Want

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