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Famous Poverty Quotes
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- Topic: Poverty
And plenty makes us poor.
-- John Dryden - Topic: Poverty
As society advances the standard of poverty rises.
-- Theodore Parker - Topic: Poverty
Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble.
-- Bible - Topic: Poverty
Chill penury repress'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul.
-- Thomas Gray - Topic: Poverty
Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
-- John Dryden - Topic: Poverty
For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.
-- Bible - Topic: Poverty
Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: but with poverty everything becomes frightful.
-- Nicolas Boileau Despreaux - Topic: Poverty
Hard as it may appear in individual cases, dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.
-- Thomas Robert Malthus - Topic: Poverty
He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
-- Bible - Topic: Poverty
He who knows how to be poor knows everything.
-- Jules Michelet - Topic: Poverty
I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.
-- Anatole France - Topic: Poverty
I wasn't born in a log cabin, but my family moved into one as soon as they could afford it.
-- Melville D Landon - Topic: Poverty
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 - Topic: Poverty
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 - Topic: Poverty
Living from hand to mouth.
-- Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas - Topic: Poverty
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 - Topic: Poverty
Oh, the little more, and how much it is! And the little less, and what worlds away.
-- Robert Browning - Topic: Poverty
One must be poor to know the luxury of living.
-- Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas - Topic: Poverty
Patiently bear the burden of poverty.
-- Dionysius Cato - Topic: Poverty
Poverty ... It is life near the bone, where it is sweetest.
-- Henry David Thoreau