Poverty Quotes
These are some of the best 'Poverty' quotations and sayings.
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A poor man resembles a fiddler, whose music, though liked, is not much praised, because he lives by it; while a gentleman performer, though the most wretched scraper alive, throws the audience into rapture.
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As pauperism, in distinction from poverty, is dependence on other people for existence, and not on our own exertions, so there is a moral pauperism in the man who is dependent on others for that support of the moral life - self respect.
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As you say, I am honoured and famous and rich. But as I have to do all the hard work, and suffer an increasing multitude of fools gladly, it does not feel any better than being reviled, infamous and poor, as I used to be.
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Blessed is he that considereth the poor.
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Chill penury weighs down the heart itself; and though it sometimes be endured with calmness, it is but the calmness of despair.
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Few, save the poor, feel for the poor.
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He is now rising from affluence to poverty.
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He is poor whose expenses exceed his income.
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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.
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He travels safe and not unpleasantly, who is guarded by poverty and guided by love.
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Hunger is insolent, and will be fed.
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I am as poor as Job, my lord, but not so patient.
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If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
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If poverty is the mother of crime, lack of good sense is the father.
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If rich, it is easy enough to conceal our wealth; but if poor, it is not quite so easy to conceal our poverty. We shall find that it is less difficult to hide a thousand guineas than one hole in our coat.
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If riches are, as Bacon says, the baggage (" impedimenta ") of virtue, impeding its onward progress - poverty is famine in its commissary department, starving it into weakness for the great conflict of life.
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If you've ever really been poor, you remain poor at heart all your life.
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In a terrible crisis there is only one element more helpless than the poor, and that is the rich.
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In America today we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than in any land. The poorhouse has vanished from amongst us.
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In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His responsibility to God is so much the less.
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