Quotes with groveling

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• By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of acquiring property chiefly, the landscape is deformed, husbandry is degraded with us, and the farmer leads the meanest of lives. He knows Nature but as a robber.

  Henry David Thoreau
  American writer (1817 - 1862)
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• There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual.

  James Russell Lowell
  American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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• What an antithetical mind! - tenderness, roughness - delicacy, coarseness - sentiment, sensuality - soaring and groveling, dirt and deity - all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!

  Lord George Byron
  English poet (1788 - 1824)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• self-delusion
• antithetical
• sentiments
• tenderness
• coarseness
• sensuality

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