The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.
In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life.
The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.
There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.
Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.
Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.
For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?
Consider then, O man! whether there can be anything more wretched and poor, more naked and miserable, than man when he dies, if he be not clothed with Christ's righteousness, and enriched in his God.
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