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“Content with poverty, my soul I arm;
And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.”
John Dryden Quotes Source: Third Book of Horace (ode 29)
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“Living from hand to mouth.”
Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas Quotes 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.”
Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas Quotes Source: Divine Weekes and Workes (second Week, first day, pt. IV)
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“The greatest man in history was the poorest.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes 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.”
Oliver Goldsmith Quotes 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.”
Oliver Goldsmith Quotes 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.”
Thomas Gray Quotes Source: Elegy in a Country Churchyard (st. 13)
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“Poverty is no sinne.
[Poverty is no sin.]”
George Herbert Quotes Source: Jacula Prudentum
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“Poverty is the mother of health.”
George Herbert Quotes 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!”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quotes 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.”
Melville D. Landon Quotes |
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“When you're really poor, everything you see
is something you can't have.”
Patrick Duncan Quotes |
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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.”
Eugene O'Neill Quotes |
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“Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough.”
Henry George Quotes |
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“As society advances the standard of poverty rises.”
Theodore Parker Quotes |
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“He who knows how to be poor knows everything.”
Jules Michelet Quotes |
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“Poverty ... It is life near the bone, where it is sweetest.”
Henry David Thoreau Quotes |
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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.”
Ching-an Quotes |
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“Hard as it may appear in individual cases, dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.”
Thomas Robert Malthus Quotes |
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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.”
Anatole France Quotes |
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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.”
Confucius Quotes |
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“Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.”
Benjamin Franklin Quotes |
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“Poverty is the step-mother of genius.”
Josh Billings Quotes |
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