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Poverty Quotes


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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.

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.

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.

Blessed is he that considereth the poor.

Chill penury weighs down the heart itself; and though it sometimes be endured with calmness, it is but the calmness of despair.

Few, save the poor, feel for the poor.

He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

He is poor whose expenses exceed his income.

He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.

He travels safe and not unpleasantly, who is guarded by poverty and guided by love.

Hunger is insolent, and will be fed.

I am as poor as Job, my lord, but not so patient.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

If poverty is the mother of crime, lack of good sense is the father.

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.

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.

If you've ever really been poor, you remain poor at heart all your life.

In a terrible crisis there is only one element more helpless than the poor, and that is the rich.

In America today we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than in any land. The poorhouse has vanished from amongst us.

In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His responsibility to God is so much the less.


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