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Chill penury repress'd their noble rage,
And froze the genial current of the soul.
Thomas Gray
Quotes , Source: Elegy in a Country Churchyard (st. 13)
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Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough.
Henry George
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We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
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But I, being poor, have only my dreams. I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly, because you tread on my dreams.
William Butler Yeats
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I think that's how Chicago got started. A bunch of people in New York said, 'Gee, I'm enjoying the crime and the poverty, but it just isn't cold enough, let's go west.'
Richard Jeni
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It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends $500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only $53 annually on the victims of poverty.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Poverty is the discoverer of all the arts.
[Lat., Paupertas omnium artium repertrix.]
Apuleius (Appuleius)
Quotes , Source: De Magia (p. 285, 35)
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Leave the poor
Some time for self-improvement. Let them not
Be forced to grind the bones out of their arms
For bread, but have some space to think and feel
Like moral and immortal creatures.
Philip James Bailey
Quotes , Source: Festus (sc. A Country Town)
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What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the
faces of the poor? saith the Lord God of hosts.
Bible
Quotes , Source: Isaiah (ch. III, v. 15)
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For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.
Bible
Quotes , Source: John (ch. XII, v. 8)
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The rich man's wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the
poor is their poverty.
Bible
Quotes , Source: Proverbs (ch. 10, v. 15)
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So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as
an armed man.
Bible
Quotes , Source: Proverbs (ch. VI, v. 11)
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He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord; and that
which he hath given will he pay him again.
Bible
Quotes , Source: Proverbs (ch. XIX, v. 17)
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Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the Lord will deliver
him in time of trouble.
Bible
Quotes , Source: Psalms (ch. XLI, v. 1)
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Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: but with
poverty everything becomes frightful.
[Fr., L'or meme a la laideur donne un teint de beaute:
Mais tout devient affreux avec la pauvrete.]
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Quotes , Source: Satires (VIII, 209)
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Oh, the little more, and how much it is!
And the little less, and what worlds away.
Robert Browning
Quotes , Source: By the Fireside (st. 39)
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Needy knife-grinder! whither are ye going?
Rough is the road, your wheel is out of order;
Bleak blows the blast--your hat has got a hole in it.
So have your breeches.
George Canning
Quotes , Source: The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder
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Thank God for poverty
That makes and keeps us free,
And lets us go our unobtrusive way,
Glad of the sun and rain,
Upright, serene, humane,
Contented with the fortune of a day.
William Bliss Carman
Quotes , Source: The Word at Saint Kavin's
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Patiently bear the burden of poverty.
[Lat., Paupertatis onus patienter ferre memento.]
Dionysius Cato
Quotes , Source: Disticha (lib. I, 21)
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