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Poverty is the discoverer of all the arts.
[Lat., Paupertas omnium artium repertrix.]
Author: Apuleius (Appuleius)
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.
Author: Philip James Bailey
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.
Author: Bible
Source: Isaiah (ch. III, v. 15)
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For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.
Author: Bible
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.
Author: Bible
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.
Author: Bible
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.
Author: Bible
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.
Author: Bible
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.]
Author: Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
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.
Author: Robert Browning
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.
Author: George Canning
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.
Author: William Bliss Carman
Source: The Word at Saint Kavin's
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Patiently bear the burden of poverty.
[Lat., Paupertatis onus patienter ferre memento.]
Author: Dionysius Cato
Source: Disticha (lib. I, 21)
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The beggarly last doit.
Author: William Cowper
Source: Task (bk. V, The Winter Morning Walk, l. 126)
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And plenty makes us poor.
Author: John Dryden
Source: The Medal (l. 126)
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Content with poverty, my soul I arm;
And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
Author: John Dryden
Source: Third Book of Horace (ode 29)
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Living from hand to mouth.
Author: Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas
Source: Divine Weekes and Workes (second Week, first day, pt. IV)
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One must be poor to know the luxury of living.
Author: Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas
Source: Divine Weekes and Workes (second Week, first day, pt. IV)
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The greatest man in history was the poorest.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: Domestic Life
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Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe,
That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Source: The Deserted Village (l. 413)
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The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the
trimmings of the vain.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Source: Vicar of Wakefield (ch. IV)
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Chill penury repress'd their noble rage,
And froze the genial current of the soul.
Author: Thomas Gray
Source: Elegy in a Country Churchyard (st. 13)
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Poverty is no sinne.
[Poverty is no sin.]
Author: George Herbert
Source: Jacula Prudentum
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Poverty is the mother of health.
Author: George Herbert
Source: Jacula Prudentum
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Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure
He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Source: Urania; or, A Rhymed Lesson (l. 325)
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I wasn't born in a log cabin, but my family moved into one as soon as they could afford it.
Author: Melville D. Landon
Source: None
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When you're really poor, everything you see
is something you can't have.
Author: Patrick Duncan
Source: None
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The child was diseased at birth, stricken with a hereditary ill that only the most vital men are able to shake off. I mean poverty--the most deadly and prevalent of all diseases.
Author: Eugene O'neill
Source: None
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Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough.
Author: Henry George
Source: None
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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.
Author: Theodore Parker
Source: None
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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.
Author: Jules Michelet
Source: None
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Poverty ... It is life near the bone, where it is sweetest.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Source: None
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The hermit doesn't sleep at night, in love with the blue of the vacant moon. The cool of the breeze that rustles the trees rustles him too.
Author: Ching-an
Source: None
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Hard as it may appear in individual cases, dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.
Author: Thomas Robert Malthus
Source: None
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I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.
Author: Anatole France
Source: None
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In a country well governed poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed wealth is something to be ashamed of.
Author: Confucius
Source: None
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Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Source: None
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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.
Author: Josh Billings
Source: None
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