They may grant you power, honour, and riches but afflict you with servitude, infamy, and poverty.
Taut faces, threatened fraternity, such strong and chaste friendship among men — these are the true riches because they are transitory.
The sight of all these riches made him suppose that this cave must have been occupied for ages by robbers, who had succeeded one another.
Born of director Giuseppe Tornatore's childhood memories, this is a magic lantern in a Sicilian boy's hand, its warm light shed on the riches of life in a poor, stone-built land.
Respond in worship as you note that the“ unsearchable riches of Christ”(3:8) were given to you as a result of the powerful and praiseworthy work of the majestic God who reaches out to his people and brings them together with him and with each other.
Wisdom is more to be envied than riches .
The crown of the wise [is] their riches: [but] the foolishness of fools [is] folly.
Russia, a signatory in 1997, already has used the treaty's legal authority to assert its rights to mineral riches on its continental shelf in the Arctic.
Even though the Champions League final is a monument to the riches and razzle-dazzle of modern football, there were some eternal truths on show in the eternal City.
Why not profit by your riches?
He is thrilled by riches and rank — "Darling, I've actually talked to a duchess!"
The Spirit also dwells in them to be their Comforter and ready Helper, and to guide them into all the truth and the unfathomable riches of Christ.
I live in a world that my ancestor'd conquered long before man made fateful contact with my family and staked their claim to the riches of our southern seas.
Remember that the thankful heart is always close to the riches of the universe.
And while we continuously significantly pollute and exhaust our water, soil, and air resources, we still like to talk much about preserving, saving, and restoring natural riches.
The boss delights himself with his riches.
At a certain level of wealth, the heavens themselves and the star-filled night are nature's riches.
We can resent the enormous riches generated on Wall Street.
Two score and twelve were told off. From the farmer-general of seventy, whose riches could not buy his life, to the seamstress of twenty, whose poverty and obscurity could not save her.
But, you man of riches, your wealth has no part in the simple grandeur of the sun's glad gold and the mellow gleam of the musing moon.
He lusts for power and riches.
Life hacking (at least to me) is a crusade not for riches, but a better, happier, more virtuous life.
The coffer of gold, which is part of your treasure, denotes that your riches shall soon be transferred to me.
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