Mammon

Mammon is a term, derived from the Christian Bible, used to describe material wealth or greed, most often personified as a deity, and sometimes included in the seven princes of Hell.

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• Maidens, like moths, are ever caught by glare,
  And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair.
  • Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto I (1812), Stanza 9.

• Mammon led them on—
  Mammon, the least erected Spirit that fell
  From Heaven: for even 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 enjoyed
  In vision beatific.
  • John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book I, line 678.

• Who sees pale Mammon pine amidst his store,
  Sees but a backward steward for the poor.
  • Alexander Pope, Moral Essays (1731-35), Epistle III, line 171.

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 487.

• I rose up at the dawn of day,—
  "Get thee away! get thee away!
  Pray'st thou for riches? Away, away!
  This is the throne of Mammon grey."
  • William Blake, Mammon.

• Cursed Mammon be, when he with treasures
  To restless action spurs our fate!
  Cursed when for soft, indulgent leisures,
  He lays for us the pillows straight.
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust.

• We cannot serve God and Mammon.
  • Matthew, VI. 24.

• What treasures here do Mammon's sons behold!
  Yet know that all that which glitters is not gold.
  • Francis Quarles, Emblems, Book II. Emblem V.