I know poetry is not dead, nor genius lost; nor has Mammon gained power over either, to bind or slay: they will both assert their existence, their presence, their liberty and strength again one day.
I know poetry is not dead, nor genius lost; nor has Mammon gained power over either, to bind or slay: they will both assert their existence, their presence, their liberty and strength again one day.
No man can serve two masters for either he will hate the one, and love the other or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Maidens, like moths, are ever caught by glare, And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair.
Mammon, the least erected spirit that fell From heaven for ev'n in heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy else enjoy'd In vision beatific.
Better authentic mammon than a bogus god.
Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil.
There are hardly half a dozen writers in England today who have not sold out to the enemy. Even when their good work has been a success, Mammon grips them and whispers More money for more work.
Catholics are necessarily at war with this age. That we are not more conscious of the fact, that we so often endeavour to make an impossible peace with it -- that is the tragedy. You cannot serve God and Mammon.
MAMMON, n. The god of the world's leading religion. The chief temple is in the holy city of New York.
Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.
An age at which many men are not quite common - at which they are hopeful of achievement, resolute in avoidance, thinking that Mammon shall never put a bit in their mouths and get astride their backs, but rather that Mammon, if they have anything to.
The age is dull and mean. Men creep, Not walk with blood too pale and tame To pay the debt they owe to shame Buy cheap, sell dear eat. drink, and sleep down-pillowed, deaf to moaning want Pay tithes for soul-insurance keep Six days to Mammon, one to Cant.
No man can serve two masters... Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
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